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Poverty and the Underclass

Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America

Autor: William A. Kelso

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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The much-heralded War on Poverty has failed. The number of children living in poverty is steadily o...

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Autor

William A. Kelso

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

1994

strony

352

EAN

9780814746585

ISBN

0814746586

Enbook ID

04931684

Wydawca

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Waga

612

Wymiary

153 x 229 x 28

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The much-heralded War on Poverty has failed. The number of children living in poverty is steadily on the rise and an increasingly destructive underclass brutalizes urban neighborhoods. America's patience with the poor seems to have run out: even cities that have traditionally been havens for the homeless are arresting, harassing, and expelling their street people.In this timely work, William Kelso analyzes how the persistence of poverty has resulted in a reversal of liberal and conservative positions during the last thirty years. While liberals in the 1960s hoped to eliminate the causes of poverty, today they increasingly seem resigned to merely treating its effects. The original liberal objective of giving the poor a helping hand by promoting equal opportunity has given way to a new agenda of entitlements and equal results. In contrast, conservatives who once suggested that trying to eliminate poverty was futile, now seek ways to eradicate the actual causes of poverty. Poverty and the Underclass suggests that the arguments of both the left and right are misguided and offers new explanations for the persistence of poverty. Looking beyond the codewords that have come to obscure the debate--underclass, family values, the culture of poverty,--Kelso emphasizes that poverty is not a monolithic condition, but a vast and multidimensional problem.During his Presidential campaign, Bill Clinton called for an overhaul of the welfare system and spoke of a new covenant to unite both the left and right in developing a common agenda for fighting poverty. In this urgent, landmark work, William Kelso merges conservative, radical, and liberal ideals to suggest how the intractable problem of poverty may be solved at long last by implementing the principles of this new covenant.

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