[Mobile library] America's Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century
▲ James T. Patterson ▲
| #168092 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2000-09-01 | 2000-08-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.82 x6.13l,1.05 | File Name: 0674004345 | 360 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A leading highly readable book on poverty in America|By Thomas G. Hunter|This book is extremely readable. It lays out the story of poverty in America; the programs, policies and legislation that were created to address it; and the social, political and cultural issues surrounding it all. The guy writes very, very well, and it is enjoyable. I did buy it for school at the Univer||[Patterson's] perspective on poverty continues to be an influential one in the debate about which policies help and which hurt the poor ... Readers will be reminded of many things they had forgotten, will learn some things they never knew, and will be provoke
This new edition of Patterson's widely used book carries the story of battles over poverty and social welfare through what the author calls the "amazing 1990s," those years of extraordinary performance of the economy. He explores a range of issues arising from the economic phenomenon--increasing inequality and demands for use of an improved poverty definition. He focuses the story on the impact of the highly controversial welfare reform of 1996, passed by a Republican C...
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