Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald Wormser, assistant to the dean for Administration in the Graduate School of Education, said yesterday that he had not been informed of Moynihan's decision. Theodore Sizer, dean of the Graduate School of Education, is on vacation in Canada...
...Moynihan first drew national attention with the publication of the "Moynihan Report" on the black family in urban ghettos. The report, which suggested that many economic problems of ghetto blacks were caused by poor family patterns, drew heavy criticism from many black leaders...
...subsequent book on the Federal poverty program, Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding, embroiled Moynihan deeper in controversy. The book-the title of which satirized a Federal slogan. "Maximum possible participation"-charged that community organizing programs funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity were doing more harm than good...
...spokesmen and liberal legislators replied heatedly, alleging that Moynihan had an elitist and calculating approach to poverty programs...
Since assuming office in the Nixon Administration in 1968, Moynihan has been the subject of attacks from blacks and conservative senators. Congressional conservatives denounced Moynihan's influence in President Nixon's Welfare Reform proposals-proposals which standards in all 50 states and a guaranteed minimum income for poor families...