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. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
AFDC aging American analysis antipoverty Appalachia argued basic became become budget Chicanos conservative cost crime crisis cultural David Stockman deal decade decline Depression early sixties economic eighties ethnic fact federal fifties food stamps force full employment going Hispanic homeless housing human immigrants income increase Indian industry jobless labor market living Lyndon Johnson major Medicaid mental middle class migration million misery nation nomic official organized pattern percent percentage political poor population possible poverty line precisely President problem programs racism radical reason relatively result Richard Cloward Ronald Reagan sector seventies Shriver simply social security society South spending statistical steel steelworkers Street structure sweatshop talked trends turned U.S. Steel undocumented workers unemployed unemployment rate union United violence wage War on Poverty welfare woman women World War II York City young