Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty
by Katz, M. B.
First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force all concerned Americans to reconsider the foundations of our policies toward the poor, especially in the wake of the Great Recession that began in 2008. Katz highlights how throughout American history, …
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First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force all concerned Americans to reconsider the foundations of our policies toward the poor, especially in the wake of the Great Recession that began in 2008. Katz highlights how throughout American history, the poor have been regarded as undeserving: people who do not deserve sympathy because they brought t.
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- Publication Date:2013.
- Edition:2nd ed
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication:Cary
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (910 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199978786, 0199978786, 9780199933952, 0199933952
- oclc:on1058945308
- LC Classification:HC110.P6 ǂb K28 2013eb
- Dewey Decimal:362.5/80973
Table of Contents
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Undeserving Poor: Morals, Culture, and Biology -- 2. Poverty and the Politics of Liberation -- 3. Intellectual Foundations of the War on Poverty and Great Society -- 4. Interpretations of Poverty in the Conservative Ascendance -- 5. The Rise and Fall of the "Underclass" -- Epilogue: What Kind of a Problem Is Poverty? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
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