djplong, you missed the point. The NWRO went bankrupt. The people they assisted in getting on welfare and other government programs were still on the programs. NWRO's founder studied under Cloward and Piven. Wiley's NWRO was one of Cloward and Piven's first experiments with "flood-the-rolls, bankrupt-the-cities" plan.

"These methods proved effective. `The flooding succeeded beyond Wiley's wildest dreams,' writes Sol Stern in the Manhattan Institute's City Journal. 'From 1965 to 1974, the number of single-parent households on welfare soared from 4.3 million to 10.8 million, despite mostly flush economic times.'"

From Discover the Networks, "With Richard Nixon's accession to the White House in 1968, the federal funds that drove NWRO began drying up. So did the public's patience for the sort of violent tactics Wiley promoted. As money tightened, NWRO's leaders began turning on each other. White activists were driven from leadership positions by black extremists. Wiley himself came under attack for his middle-class background. A poor people's organization should be run by poor people, the insurgents declared. Pressure grew to fill every leadership slot with welfare recipients, rather than with the professional activists who had previously led NWRO.

"Wiley announced his resignation in a New York Times interview of December 16, 1971. 'The welfare rights movement created a political and economic crisis around the issue of welfare which could have led to reform or repression,' he told the Times. 'What we are witnessing is repression, and we need a broad organized movement to counter it.'

"Wiley said that he would officially leave NWRO on January 31, 1972, in order to start a new group called The Movement for Economic Justice. 'In some ways, people are tired of the issue of welfare and the label is a problem …'
he said. 'The real welfare in this country is going to the Department of Defense, the railroads, the airlines and to other corporations through tax loopholes."' MY NOTE: SOUND FAMILIAR?????

"Wiley declared that he would reach out across class and racial lines, building a coalition of the working poor, the unemployed, senior citizens and the lower middle-class (those making $5,000 to $15,000 per year) around such issues as national health insurance, consumer rights, housing, daycare, and tax reform. He explained that he was not abandoning his original mission, but expanding it. Welfare was only one of many paths to his ultimate goal: 'income redistribution.' "

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/i...asp?indid=1769