Abstract
During their Administration and throughout the 1992 Presidential campaign, President Bush and Vice President Quayle claimed that the initiatives of the 1960's are responsible for the persistence of poverty in the United States and the urban problems demonstrated so graphically by the Los Angeles riots this spring.' Their statements are part of a disturbing effort to divert attention from the structural problems of our society and to focus instead on the so-called deviance of the poor. The rhetoric of the current welfare reform2 debate goes something like this: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients are themselves responsible for their poverty because they have not pulled themselves up by their bootstraps; they are dysfunctional mothers incapable of fitting into mainstream society, and they are economically and emotionally
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