Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it / Frank Stricker.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Stricker, Frank.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 343 p. :; ill.
• Other title: 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 --; 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.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780807831113 (cloth : alk. paper); 0807831115 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780807858042 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0807858048 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780807882290 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Frank Stricker.