The Movement to End Poverty Today neither traditional party politics nor community service is concerned with ending poverty, just providing stopgap measures, band-aid solutions in the face of a fundamentally changed U.S. economy. So ETS works with groups of poor people fighting for their own survival and beginning a movement to end poverty -- modeled after past social movements like abolition and civil rights.
While the movement fights today against welfare reform and other cutbacks, ultimately we are fighting for a society without institutionalized poverty, one that provides jobs with living wages to everyone.
Students have always been instrumental in supporting major social movements -- from organizing in the civil rights movement to fighting for democracy in China. We have the resources and the independence to support communities struggling in poverty, fighting together for a just world for everyone.