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.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• pt. 1. The golden age of laissez-faire? : the 50s
• 1. The 1950s : limited government, limited affluence
• pt. 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
• pt. 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
• pt. 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
• Appendix 2 : Groups often left out of antipoverty discussions in the 60s and today
• Notes
• Bibliographical essay
• Index.