摘要：The conservative renascence of the 1980s in the US and elsewhere significantly reduced public provision, most notably in the areas defined as 'welfare.' In the 1980s continuing deindustrialization combined with cutbacks in welfare spending and a regressive tax policy sharply increased inequality and poverty and many of their attendant sufferings - illness, drug and alcohol addiction, violence in both public and private spaces. In response, many socialists, feminists, and other Leftists have joined with a broader spectrum of progressives to defend the welfare programmes, admittedly puny, that we now have and to advocate new ones on a similarly stingy and stigmatizing model.
其他摘要：The conservative renascence of the 1980s in the US and elsewhere significantly reduced public provision, most notably in the areas defined as 'welfare.' In the 1980s continuing deindustrialization combined with cutbacks in welfare spending and a regressive tax policy sharply increased inequality and poverty and many of their attendant sufferings - illness, drug and alcohol addiction, violence in both public and private spaces. In response, many socialists, feminists, and other Leftists have joined with a broader spectrum of progressives to defend the welfare programmes, admittedly puny, that we now have and to advocate new ones on a similarly stingy and stigmatizing model.
