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Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it / Frank Stricker.

By: Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.Description: xiii, 345 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780807831113 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780807858042 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.5/560973 22
LOC classification:
  • HC110.P6 S78 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks HC110 .P6 S78 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001028926

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.

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