How We Lost The War On Poverty
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Author |
: Frank Stricker |
Publisher |
: ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages |
: 682 |
Release |
: 2009-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442997929 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442997923 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why America Lost the War on Poverty - and How to Win It by : Frank Stricker
In a provocative assessment of American poverty and policy from 1950 to the present, Frank Strieker examines an era that has seen serious discussion about the causes of poverty and unemployment. Analyzing the War on Poverty, theories of the culture of poverty and the underclass, the effects of Reaganomics, and the 1996 welfare reform, Strieker dem-onstrates that most antipoverty approaches are futile without the presence (or creation) of good jobs. Strieker notes that since the 1970s, U.S. poverty levels have remained at or above 11 %, despite training programs and periods of economic growth. The creation of jobs has continued to lag behind the need for them. Strieker argues that a serious public debate is needed about the job situation; social programs must be redesigned, a national health care program must be developed, and eco-nomic inequality must be addressed. He urges all sides to be honest - if we don't want to eliminate poverty, then we should say so. But if we do want to reduce poverty significantly, he says, we must expand decent jobs and government income programs, redirecting national resources away from the rich and toward those with low incomes. Why America Lost the War on Poverty - And How to Win It is sure to prompt much-needed debate on how to move forward. Frank Stricker is professor of history at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Author |
: Marc Pilisuk |
Publisher |
: Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 1973-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 141282558X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781412825580 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis How We Lost the War on Poverty by : Marc Pilisuk
Author |
: Marc Pilisuk |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:258087891 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis How We Lost the War on Poverty by : Marc Pilisuk
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: |
Publisher |
: ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages |
: 382 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442998032 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442998032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why America Lost the War on Poverty - and How to Win It by :
Author |
: Annelise Orleck |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 516 |
Release |
: 2011-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820341842 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820341843 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The War on Poverty by : Annelise Orleck
Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of "poverty pimps," and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it. Examining the long War on Poverty from the 1960s onward, this book makes a controversial argument that the programs were in many ways a success, reducing poverty rates and weaving a social safety net that has proven as enduring as programs that came out of the New Deal. The War on Poverty also transformed American politics from the grass roots up, mobilizing poor people across the nation. Blacks in crumbling cities, rural whites in Appalachia, Cherokees in Oklahoma, Puerto Ricans in the Bronx, migrant Mexican farmworkers, and Chinese immigrants from New York to California built social programs based on Johnson's vision of a greater, more just society. Contributors to this volume chronicle these vibrant and largely unknown histories while not shying away from the flaws and failings of the movement--including inadequate funding, co-optation by local political elites, and blindness to the reality that mothers and their children made up most of the poor. In the twenty-first century, when one in seven Americans receives food stamps and community health centers are the largest primary care system in the nation, the War on Poverty is as relevant as ever. This book helps us to understand the turbulent era out of which it emerged and why it remains so controversial to this day.
Author |
: Frank Stricker |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2011-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807882290 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807882291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why America Lost the War on Poverty--And How to Win It by : Frank Stricker
In a provocative assessment of American poverty and policy from 1950 to the present, Frank Stricker examines an era that has seen serious discussion about the causes of poverty and unemployment. Analyzing the War on Poverty, theories of the culture of poverty and the underclass, the effects of Reaganomics, and the 1996 welfare reform, Stricker demonstrates that most antipoverty approaches are futile without the presence (or creation) of good jobs. Stricker notes that since the 1970s, U.S. poverty levels have remained at or above 11%, despite training programs and periods of economic growth. The creation of jobs has continued to lag behind the need for them. Stricker argues that a serious public debate is needed about the job situation; social programs must be redesigned, a national health care program must be developed, and economic inequality must be addressed. He urges all sides to be honest--if we don't want to eliminate poverty, then we should say so. But if we do want to reduce poverty significantly, he says, we must expand decent jobs and government income programs, redirecting national resources away from the rich and toward those with low incomes. Why America Lost the War on Poverty--And How to Win It is sure to prompt much-needed debate on how to move forward.
Author |
: Joanne Meyerowitz |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2021-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691219974 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691219974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis A War on Global Poverty by : Joanne Meyerowitz
A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of US involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernization programs to the rise of microcredit, Joanne Meyerowitz looks beyond familiar histories of development and explains why antipoverty programs increasingly focused on women as the deserving poor. When the United States joined the war on global poverty, economists, policymakers, and activists asked how to change a world in which millions lived in need. Moved to the left by socialists, social democrats, and religious humanists, they rejected the notion that economic growth would trickle down to the poor, and they proposed programs to redress inequities between and within nations. In an emerging “women in development” movement, they positioned women as economic actors who could help lift families and nations out of destitution. In the more conservative 1980s, the war on global poverty turned decisively toward market-based projects in the private sector. Development experts and antipoverty advocates recast women as entrepreneurs and imagined microcredit—with its tiny loans—as a grassroots solution. Meyerowitz shows that at the very moment when the overextension of credit left poorer nations bankrupt, loans to impoverished women came to replace more ambitious proposals that aimed at redistribution. Based on a wealth of sources, A War on Global Poverty looks at a critical transformation in antipoverty efforts in the late twentieth century and points to its legacies today.
Author |
: Frank Stricker |
Publisher |
: ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442997899 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442997893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why America Lost the War on Poverty - and how to Win it (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) by : Frank Stricker
Analyzing the War on Poverty, theories of the culture of poverty and the underclass, the effects of Reaganomics, and the 1996 welfare reform, Stricker demonstrates that most antipoverty approaches are futile without the presence (or creation) of good jobs. He argues that a serious public debate is needed about the job situation; social programs must be redesigned, a national health care program must be developed, and economic inequality must be addressed.
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:942951591 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis How we lost the war on poverty. Ed. by M. Pilisuk and Ph. Pilisuk by :
Author |
: Frank Stricker |
Publisher |
: Readhowyouwant |
Total Pages |
: 504 |
Release |
: 2009-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1442929510 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781442929517 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why America Lost the War on Poverty - and How to Win It by : Frank Stricker
In a provocative assessment of American poverty and policy from 1950 to the present, Frank Strieker examines an era that has seen serious discussion about the causes of poverty and unemployment. Analyzing the War on Poverty, theories of the culture of poverty and the underclass, the effects of Reaganomics, and the 1996 welfare reform, Strieker dem-onstrates that most antipoverty approaches are futile without the presence (or creation) of good jobs. Strieker notes that since the 1970s, U.S. poverty levels have remained at or above 11 %, despite training programs and periods of economic growth. The creation of jobs has continued to lag behind the need for them. Strieker argues that a serious public debate is needed about the job situation; social programs must be redesigned, a national health care program must be developed, and eco-nomic inequality must be addressed. He urges all sides to be honest - if we don't want to eliminate poverty, then we should say so. But if we do want to reduce poverty significantly, he says, we must expand decent jobs and government income programs, redirecting national resources away from the rich and toward those with low incomes. Why America Lost the War on Poverty - And How to Win It is sure to prompt much-needed debate on how to move forward. Frank Stricker is professor of history at California State University, Dominguez Hills.