Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it /
Stricker, Frank.
Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it / Frank Stricker. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - xiii, 345 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-327) and index.
The 1950s : limited government, limited affluence -- Planning the war on poverty : fixing the poor or fixing the economy? -- Evaluating the war on poverty : the conservatism of liberalism -- Moynihan, the dissenters, and the racialization of poverty : a liberal turning point that did not turn -- Statistics and theory of unemployment and poverty : lessons from the 60s and the postwar era -- The politics of poverty and welfare in the 70s : from Nixon to Carter -- Too much work ethic : one reason poverty rates stopped falling in the 70s, and the stories that were told about it -- Cutting poverty or cutting welfare : conservatives attack liberalism -- Reagan, Reaganomics, and the American poor, 1980-1992 -- Staying poor in the Clinton boom : welfare reform, the nearby labor force, and the limits of the work ethic -- Bush and beyond : on solving and not solving poverty.
9780807831113 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807858042 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007012426
Poverty--History--United States--20th century.
Poor--History--United States--20th century.
HC110.P6 / S78 2007
362.5/560973
Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it / Frank Stricker. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - xiii, 345 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-327) and index.
The 1950s : limited government, limited affluence -- Planning the war on poverty : fixing the poor or fixing the economy? -- Evaluating the war on poverty : the conservatism of liberalism -- Moynihan, the dissenters, and the racialization of poverty : a liberal turning point that did not turn -- Statistics and theory of unemployment and poverty : lessons from the 60s and the postwar era -- The politics of poverty and welfare in the 70s : from Nixon to Carter -- Too much work ethic : one reason poverty rates stopped falling in the 70s, and the stories that were told about it -- Cutting poverty or cutting welfare : conservatives attack liberalism -- Reagan, Reaganomics, and the American poor, 1980-1992 -- Staying poor in the Clinton boom : welfare reform, the nearby labor force, and the limits of the work ethic -- Bush and beyond : on solving and not solving poverty.
9780807831113 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807858042 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007012426
Poverty--History--United States--20th century.
Poor--History--United States--20th century.
HC110.P6 / S78 2007
362.5/560973