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Finally, a New Paradigm agenda would include selling public housing to tenants in order to decrease the government's involvement and encourage tenant responsibility. This sort of plan, New Paradigm supporters say, would empower the poor by forcing tenants to take a greater responsibility for their own lives...
Ellwood, a Kennedy School labor economist who specializes in the study of poverty, agrees that New Paradigm strategies are seriously limited in their ability to aid the poor...
Ellwood also notes that the New Paradigm does not address two of the most important poverty issues: the impoverished situation of single-parent families and the dilemma of people who work full time and still remain below the poverty line...
Apparently, Ellwood is not alone in this concern. Many scholars--even liberal ones--do praise the philosophy of decentralization underlying the New Paradigm. But others say the New Paradigm is a poor excuse for a comprehensive domestic policy...
...Schneider says that, even though these programs are not new per se, the articulation of a New Paradigm has sparked a newly-revived interest in existing programs...