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Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it / Frank Stricker.
| Author/creator | Stricker, Frank |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, |
| Description | xiii, 345 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface -- Introduction -- pt. 1. The golden age of laissez-faire? : the 50s -- 1. The 1950s : limited government, limited affluence -- pt. 2. Wars on poverty : the 60s -- 2. Planning the war on poverty : fixing the poor or fixing the economy? -- 3. Evaluating the war on poverty : the conservatism of liberalism -- 4. Moynihan, the dissenters, and the racialization of poverty : a liberal turning point that did not turn -- 5. Statistics and theory of unemployment and poverty : lessons from the 60s and the postwar era -- pt. 3. Toward a war on the poor : the 70s and 80s -- 6. The politics of poverty and welfare in the 70s : from Nixon to Carter -- 7. Too much work ethic : one reason poverty rates stopped falling in the 70s, and the stories that were told about it -- 8. Cutting poverty or cutting welfare : conservatives attack liberalism -- 9. Reagan, Reaganomics, and the American poor, 1980-1992 -- pt. 4. The poor you will always have with you - if you don't do the right thing : 1993-present -- 10. Staying poor in the Clinton boom : welfare reform, the nearby labor force, and the limits of the work ethic -- 11. Bush and beyond : on solving and not solving poverty -- |
| Contents | Appendix 1 : Unemployment, poverty, earnings, and household structure -- Appendix 2 : Groups often left out of antipoverty discussions in the 60s and today -- Notes -- Bibliographical essay -- Index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-327) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007012426 |
| ISBN | 9780807831113 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807831115 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780807858042 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807858048 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |