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Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stricker, Frank.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
Subjects:
Poverty > United States > History > 20th century.
Poor > United States > History > 20th century.
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245 1 0 |a Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it  |h [electronic resource] /  |c Frank Stricker. 
260 |a Chapel Hill [N.C.] :  |b University of North Carolina Press,  |c c2007. 
300 |a xiii, 343 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |t Preface --  |t Introduction --  |g pt. 1. The  |t golden age of laissez-faire? : the 50s --  |g 1. The  |t 1950s : limited government, limited affluence --  |g pt. 2.  |t Wars on poverty : the 60s --  |g 2.  |t Planning the war on poverty : fixing the poor or fixing the economy? --  |g 3.  |t Evaluating the war on poverty : the conservatism of liberalism --  |g 4.  |t Moynihan, the dissenters, and the racialization of poverty : a liberal turning point that did not turn --  |g 5.  |t Statistics and theory of unemployment and poverty : lessons from the 60s and the postwar era --  |g pt. 3.  |t Toward a war on the poor : the 70s and 80s --  |g 6. The  |t politics of poverty and welfare in the 70s : from Nixon to Carter --  |g 7.  |t Too much work ethic : one reason poverty rates stopped falling in the 70s, and the stories that were told about it --  |g 8.  |t Cutting poverty or cutting welfare : conservatives attack liberalism --  |g 9.  |t Reagan, Reaganomics, and the American poor, 1980-1992 --  |g pt. 4. The  |t poor you will always have with you - if you don't do the right thing : 1993-present --  |g 10.  |t Staying poor in the Clinton boom : welfare reform, the nearby labor force, and the limits of the work ethic --  |g 11.  |t Bush and beyond : on solving and not solving poverty -- 
505 8 0 |t Appendix 1 : Unemployment, poverty, earnings, and household structure --  |t Appendix 2 : Groups often left out of antipoverty discussions in the 60s and today --  |t Notes --  |t Bibliographical essay --  |t Index. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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