TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stricker,Frank
TI  - Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it
SN  - 9780807831113 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HC110.P6 S78 2007
U1  - 362.5/560973 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Poverty
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Poor
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012426.html
ER  -