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100 1 _aStricker, Frank.
245 1 0 _aWhy America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it
_h[electronic resource] /
_cFrank Stricker.
260 _aChapel Hill [N.C.] :
_bUniversity of North Carolina Press,
_cc2007.
300 _axiii, 343 p. :
_bill.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tPreface --
_tIntroduction --
_gpt. 1. The
_tgolden age of laissez-faire? : the 50s --
_g1. The
_t1950s : limited government, limited affluence --
_gpt. 2.
_tWars on poverty : the 60s --
_g2.
_tPlanning the war on poverty : fixing the poor or fixing the economy? --
_g3.
_tEvaluating the war on poverty : the conservatism of liberalism --
_g4.
_tMoynihan, the dissenters, and the racialization of poverty : a liberal turning point that did not turn --
_g5.
_tStatistics and theory of unemployment and poverty : lessons from the 60s and the postwar era --
_gpt. 3.
_tToward a war on the poor : the 70s and 80s --
_g6. The
_tpolitics of poverty and welfare in the 70s : from Nixon to Carter --
_g7.
_tToo much work ethic : one reason poverty rates stopped falling in the 70s, and the stories that were told about it --
_g8.
_tCutting poverty or cutting welfare : conservatives attack liberalism --
_g9.
_tReagan, Reaganomics, and the American poor, 1980-1992 --
_gpt. 4. The
_tpoor you will always have with you - if you don't do the right thing : 1993-present --
_g10.
_tStaying poor in the Clinton boom : welfare reform, the nearby labor force, and the limits of the work ethic --
_g11.
_tBush and beyond : on solving and not solving poverty --
505 8 0 _tAppendix 1 : Unemployment, poverty, earnings, and household structure --
_tAppendix 2 : Groups often left out of antipoverty discussions in the 60s and today --
_tNotes --
_tBibliographical essay --
_tIndex.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aPoverty
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPoor
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
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