Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it /
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| Author / Creator: | Stricker, Frank. |
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. |
| Description: | xiii, 345 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6448501 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Golden Age of Laissez-Faire?: The 50s
- 1. The 1950s: Limited Government, Limited Affluence
- Part 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
- Part 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
- Part 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
- Figure A.1. Annual Official Civilian Unemployment Rate and Author's Estimate of Real Rate, 1959-2005
- Figure A.2. U.S. Poverty Rates, 1950-2004
- Figure A.3. Real Weekly Earnings of Production and Nonsupervisory Workers in the Private Sector, 1964-2005
- Figure A.4. Percentage of Poor by Household Type, 1959, 1979, 1998
- Appendix 2. Groups Often Left Out of Antipoverty Discussions in the 60s and Today
- Notes
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
