Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it
Stricker, Frank.
Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it [electronic resource] / Frank Stricker. - Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - xiii, 343 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- golden age of laissez-faire? : the 50s -- 1950s : limited government, limited affluence -- Wars on poverty : the 60s -- 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 -- Toward a war on the poor : the 70s and 80s -- 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 -- poor you will always have with you - if you don't do the right thing : 1993-present -- 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 -- pt. 1. The 1. The pt. 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. pt. 3. 6. The 7. 8. 9. pt. 4. The 10. 11. 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.
Poverty--History--United States--20th century.
Poor--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
HC110.P6 / S78 2007eb
362.5/560973
Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it [electronic resource] / Frank Stricker. - Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - xiii, 343 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- golden age of laissez-faire? : the 50s -- 1950s : limited government, limited affluence -- Wars on poverty : the 60s -- 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 -- Toward a war on the poor : the 70s and 80s -- 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 -- poor you will always have with you - if you don't do the right thing : 1993-present -- 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 -- pt. 1. The 1. The pt. 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. pt. 3. 6. The 7. 8. 9. pt. 4. The 10. 11. 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.
Poverty--History--United States--20th century.
Poor--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
HC110.P6 / S78 2007eb
362.5/560973