Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it
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Chapel Hill [N.C.] :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2007.
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Table of 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
- 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.