Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third avenue of "institutional reform" consists of aiding local community action groups to unravel the complexities of the law. During the past six months, CLAO has advised a group of Boston poor organizing an egg-buying co-operative, a neighborhood rehabilitation program, and a proposed Cambridge credit union...
...cases toward improving the state of the poor in the face of the law. Ferren says they will try to "aim broadsides against institutional adversaries of the poor,"--chiefly by using the weapon of test cases. Eligibility standards of local welfare boards are one primary target of the "institutional reform" policy...
Other efforts for "institutional reform" are directed against merchants and landlords who allegedly exploit the poor. "What do those ... think they're doing suing me," one mercant supposedly fumed when told of a test case against him for unfair selling practices...
...institutional reform programs are often long and costly--they can detract from the handling of routine "service" cases in the office. CLAO's present experimentation with the full handling of both types of cases is possible only as long as a certain surplus of manpower and money exists--and that surplus is shrinking as the case load grows...
...cannot appreciate the beauty of the desert flower. Where Tom sees Liberty Valance as a source of personal conflict, a potential menace to his own well-being, Stoddard can only see Valance as the embodiment of a social evil that must be wiped out through new laws and social reform...