Word: self-help
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National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Washington. Run by Robert L. Woodson, a black former social worker and previously a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Identifies self-help groups in the ghetto and inner city and helps link them -up with corporate funders and policymakers...
...sponsored by Oxfam America and Save the Children, the group collected enough money to fund eight or ten small scale self-help development projects, said biker Marianne Kelly, who graduated from Rutgers in June...
...some 12,000 titles long, is as wide as a library. Some are only one tape: about an hour and a half. Others can go on for days. Listeners can wander from Hamlet and Moby Dick to Tough Marriage and Eat to Succeed. Although fiction is the most beguiling, self-help books are in greatest demand: The One Minute Manager, In Search of Excellence, 21 Days to Stop Smoking. On occasion, more calorific titles come into earshot: Totally Lewd Limericks, How to Make Love to a Man (prefaced by the warning "This tape contains explicit and graphic language which...
...policies of the past two generations. None hold to this belief more guiltily, if furtively, than the Democrats." His party, Moynihan observed, is in "worse shape nationally than since the aftermath of the Civil War." He urged his colleagues to seek fresh ideas that go beyond calls for more self-help among blacks. "By all means, let us go on about self-reliance, gumption and go-gettingness," said Moynihan. "But if that is all there is to be by way of social policy, no one needs Democrats. And if that is all the social policy there is to be, Democrats...
Democratic Party leaders are beginning to wrestle with radical approaches like these. Many of the panelists at last week's forum discussed the need to provide jobs, experiment with workfare initiatives and find ways to shape Government programs so that they encourage, rather than discourage, self-help among the underclass. But as Moynihan noted, "We are grievously short of specific ideas." For the Democrats to regain the initiative on what has traditionally been one of their most important issues, the quest to conquer the problems of poverty in America, they will have to find ways to sharpen the ideas that...