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Legacies of the war on poverty /
Many believe that the War on Poverty, launched by President Johnson in 1964, ended in failure. In 2010, the official poverty rate was 15 percent, almost as high as when the War on Poverty was declared. Historical and contemporary accounts often portray the War on Poverty as a costly experiment that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2013]
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| Colección: | National Poverty Center series on poverty and public policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Many believe that the War on Poverty, launched by President Johnson in 1964, ended in failure. In 2010, the official poverty rate was 15 percent, almost as high as when the War on Poverty was declared. Historical and contemporary accounts often portray the War on Poverty as a costly experiment that created doubts about the ability of public policies to address complex social problems. This book, drawing from fifty years of empirical evidence, documents that this popular view is too negative. The volume offers a balanced assessment of the War on Poverty that highlights some remarkable policy successes and promises to shift the national conversation on poverty in America. Featuring contributions from leading poverty researchers, this book demonstrates that poverty and racial discrimination would likely have been much greater in the twenty-first century if the War on Poverty had not been launched. -- Publisher's description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) : tables |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781610448062 1610448065 9781610448147 1610448146 |