TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stricker,Frank
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it
AV  - HC110.P6 S78 2007eb
U1  - 362.5/560973 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chapel Hill [N.C.]
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Poverty
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Poor
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 --; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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ER  -