City Makers; 4; Welfare or Ginsberg
- Series
- City Makers
- Episode Number
- 4
- Episode
- Welfare or Ginsberg
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-610vq2t19m
- NOLA Code
- CITM
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Mitchell Ginsberg, New York Citys human resources administrator, heads a list of guests who discuss welfare reforms and public attitudes toward the concept of welfare. Dr. Kenneth B. Clark is host. Mitchell Ginsberg is administrator of New York Citys Human Resources Administration, the superagency accountable for the citys many anti-poverty programs. Recently, the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity accused the administration of fund mismanagement, and a Manhattan (New York County) grand jury is investigating alleged corruption within the administration. This program was taped prior to the accusation. Questioned on City Makers by the series host, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, Ginsberg puts forth two principal contentions: that the present welfare structure should be abolished in favor of a national system and that the attitude of more Americans toward welfare is hypocritical and unfair. In general, he is supported on both counts by the programs other guests, who are: Mrs. Beulah Sanders, chairman of the (New York) City-Wide Coordinating Committee of Welfare Groups, and herself a welfare recipient: Miss Heather Ross, an economist with Mathematica, a Princeton, N.J., research and development firm, and advocate of the negative income tax, a plan for supplementing family incomes that are below an established level; and Henry K. Shor, director of community relations for KLH, a Cambridge, Mas., research and development firm. Ginsberg complains that under the present system, welfare costs fall chiefly on the units of government that can least afford it, resulting in grossly inadequate payments in many areas and an unfair burden on locales where better assistance is given. For example, he explains, a family of four on relief in Mississippi is given about $35 a month, while the same sized family in New York City gets about $325. Therefore, the tendency is for poor people to come north. Welfare is a national problem and it ought to have a national, system, he says. Ginsberg also complains of a double standard toward financial assistance programs: Farm subsidies is my favorite illustration, but use the ship owners and the air plane manufactures and the railroads with them we call it subsidy and investment and its always a hundred percent federally financed but when you come to the welfare program, which basically is really a subsidy or investment on poor people we use handout and insist that the units of government least able to finance this must carry roughly two-thirds of the cost. Ginsberg and Clark also attack the contention that most poor Americans are black. About two-thirds of those Americans who live in poverty are white, they say. City Makers is produced for National Educational Television by its Boston affiliate station, WGBH, on the campus of Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. Producer: Henry Morgenthau (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- In City Makers, an 8-part series, Dr. Kenneth Clark conducts half-hour interviews with important figures discussing the troubles plaguing American cities. Dr. Clark was a professor of psychology at City College of the City University of New York, and was also visiting professor at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., when he hosted this series, which was recorded in color.
- Broadcast Date
- 1969-02-26
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:29:25
- Credits
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Guest: Ginsberg, Mitchell I.
Guest: Ross, Heather
Guest: Sanders, Beulah
Guest: Shor, Henry K.
Host: Clark, Kenneth B.
Producer: Morgenthau, Henry, 1917-
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2101171-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape: Quad
Duration: 0:28:57
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2101171-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: Color
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2101171-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Master
Color: Color
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- Citations
- Chicago: “City Makers; 4; Welfare or Ginsberg,” 1969-02-26, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 29, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-610vq2t19m.
- MLA: “City Makers; 4; Welfare or Ginsberg.” 1969-02-26. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 29, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-610vq2t19m>.
- APA: City Makers; 4; Welfare or Ginsberg. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-610vq2t19m