The New American PovertyEssay on the political aspects of poverty and social assistance in the USA, from 1960 to 1983 - covers the impact of structural unemployment, downward social mobility, and the plight of blacks, hispanics, American Indians, immigrants, irregular migrants and unmarried mothers (female headed households); criticizes the Reagan fiscal policy as causing income redistribution away from low income groups towards the middle class or wealthy. |
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Page 90
... percentage of public money devoted to need - related programs ( the poor ) " has actually been less since 1965 than before . About 25 percent of total benefits was spent on aid to the needy before 1965 , but this proportion has since ...
... percentage of public money devoted to need - related programs ( the poor ) " has actually been less since 1965 than before . About 25 percent of total benefits was spent on aid to the needy before 1965 , but this proportion has since ...
Page 136
... percentage of those holding jobs , or look- ing for them ; it excludes those who have been driven out of the labor market , whatever the reason . The numbers I cite are op- timistic , even in all their ugliness . Many of those men ...
... percentage of those holding jobs , or look- ing for them ; it excludes those who have been driven out of the labor market , whatever the reason . The numbers I cite are op- timistic , even in all their ugliness . Many of those men ...
Page 241
... percentage of employment dropped from 42.1 to 20.6 . But 20.6 percent of the ( roughly ) 105 million men and women in the labor force in 1979 was well over twenty million human beings . Even if the projections that envision a further ...
... percentage of employment dropped from 42.1 to 20.6 . But 20.6 percent of the ( roughly ) 105 million men and women in the labor force in 1979 was well over twenty million human beings . Even if the projections that envision a further ...
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