Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it
By: Frank Stricker.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780807831113; 9780807858042
Subjects: Poverty -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Poor -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The 1950s : limited government, limited affluence; title: Planning the war on poverty : fixing the poor or fixing the economy?; title: Evaluating the war on poverty : the conservatism of liberalism; title: Moynihan, the dissenters, and the racialization of poverty : a liberal turning point that did not turn; title: Statistics and theory of unemployment and poverty : lessons from the 60s and the postwar era; title: The politics of poverty and welfare in the 70s : from Nixon to Carter; title: Too much work ethic : one reason poverty rates stopped falling in the 70s, and the stories that were told about it; title: Cutting poverty or cutting welfare : conservatives attack liberalism; title: Reagan, Reaganomics, and the American poor, 1980-1992; title: Staying poor in the Clinton boom : welfare reform, the nearby labor force, and the limits of the work ethic; title: Bush and beyond : on solving and not solving poverty.