Poverty in America
Subtitle: A Handbook
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780520239593
Subjects: Central government policies; Economics; Poverty; Poor; Economics - Macroeconomics; Economic History; United States; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Business/Economics; USA; Ethnic Studies - General; Economics - General; General; Business & Economics / General; Economic assistance, Domestic; History
First sentence: In 1971, Robert Lampman, who had been a key economic adviser to President Lyndon Johnson on anti-poverty initiatives, predicted that poverty would be eradicated by 1980.