War on Poverty
description: unofficial name for legislation first introduced by U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964
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The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
by John Fabian Witt · 14 Oct 2025 · 735pp · 279,360 words
; James Neal Primm, Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri (Pruett, 1990), 357. “begging girls”: Robert H. Lauer and Jeanette C. Lauer, “Will a Private War on Poverty Succeed? The Case of the St. Louis Provident Association,” Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare 10 (1983): 12, 19. crowded with fights: Lamson, Roger Baldwin, 30
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
by Richard V. Reeves · 22 May 2017 · 198pp · 52,089 words
in a country that a hundred years ago W. E. B. Du Bois labeled “a land of dollars.”8 Nobody can plausibly suggest that the War on Poverty was won: 15 percent of Americans remain in poverty, according to official estimates.9 But nor can anyone sensibly suggest that the
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War on Poverty was lost, either. The poverty rate has dropped by 7 percent since 1959, largely as a result of increased government transfers to those with low
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, Joanna, 126 Vocational education, 50 Vonnegut, Kurt, 78 Wage inequalities, 26–27. See also Income inequality Waldfogel, Jane, 45 Waldman, Paul, 2 Walker, Darren, 145 War on Poverty, 22 Washbrook, Liz, 45 West, Darrell, 135 White anxiety, 3 Williams, Bernard, 81–82 Winship, Scott, 66–67 Wolff, Edward, 26 Women. See Gender Yale
A Framework for Understanding Poverty
by Ruby K. Payne · 4 May 2012 · 178pp · 47,457 words
emergency rooms and who do not have the family support to keep them out of trouble.' " In the 1964 State of the Union address, the war on poverty was declared. The President's Council of Economic Advisors reported there was "an inverse relationship between the extent of education of family heads and the
Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People
by Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein · 14 Nov 2013 · 128pp · 35,958 words
and the Productivity Puzzle.” Working Paper No. 4122. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Holzer, Harry. 2013. “Workforce Development Programs.” In Legacies of the War on Poverty, ed. Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, 121-151.New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. Johnson, Clifford M., Amy Rynell, and Melissa Young. 2010. “Publicly
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
by David K. Shipler · 12 Nov 2008 · 407pp · 136,138 words
to make itself the fabled land of opportunity; the resident must strive to use that opportunity. The ideal has inspired a Civil Rights Movement, a War on Poverty, and a continuing search for ways to ease the distress that persists in the midst of plenty. But the American Myth also provides a means
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at the time, the portrait of a vast “invisible land” of the poor came as a staggering revelation. It helped generate Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. But Johnson’s war never truly mobilized the country, nor was it ever fought to victory. Fifty years later, after all our economic achievements, the
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
by Kathryn Paige Harden · 20 Sep 2021 · 375pp · 102,166 words
. Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist (New York: One World, 2019). 10. Douglas Almond, Kenneth Y. Chay, and Michael Greenstone, “Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South and Mississippi,” MIT Department of Economics Working Paper no. 07-04, SSRN (Rochester, NY
The Broken Ladder
by Keith Payne · 8 May 2017
your family and cover basic expenses. Incomes that fell below that number would be considered below the poverty line. In 1964 Lyndon Johnson declared the “War on Poverty.” Because the administration lacked an official metric to define who was poor, it decided to adopt a version of the “Orshansky index” to determine who
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, Kathleen, 217 voting, 100–103, 105–8, 110–12, 156, 172–73 Wake Forest University, 129–30 Wall Street Journal, 182 Wansink, Brian, 36–37 War on Poverty, 32 Washington, 175 wealth, 12, 47, 89, 205 in ancient times, 20, 22–23 distribution, 10, 26–27 and the future, 63–64, 201–2
Social Democratic America
by Lane Kenworthy · 3 Jan 2014 · 283pp · 73,093 words
, MA: Harvard University Press. Waldfogel, Jane. 2009. “The Role of Family Policies in Antipoverty Policy.” Focus 26(2): 50–55. Waldfogel, Jane. 2010. Britain’s War on Poverty. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Waldfogel, Jane and Elizabeth Washbrook. 2011. “Income-Related Gaps in School Readiness in the United States and the United Kingdom
Automating Inequality
by Virginia Eubanks · 294pp · 77,356 words
headway against persistent poverty when mass protest compelled substantial federal investment. Many of the programs of the Social Security Act, the GI Bill, and the War on Poverty suffered from fatal flaws: by excluding women and men of color from their programs, they limited their own equalizing potential. But they offered broadly social
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discretion, and more complete surveillance shredded our already inadequate social safety net. The Congress used the cost of the war in Vietnam to rationalize dismantling War on Poverty programs. The peacetime GI Bill, public service jobs, and minimum guaranteed income called for by the Poor People’s Campaign never materialized. * * * Today, these goals
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, Michael B. In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America. New York: Basic Books, 1996. ________. The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. Katz, Michael B., and the Committee for Research on the Urban Underclass Social
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A Cloward. Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare. New York: Pantheon, 1971. Quadagno, Jill S. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Reese, Ellen. Backlash against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2005. “Revelations Promised: Alleged
Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy
by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght · 20 Mar 2017
product is “Â�illfare”: public housing, urban renewal, old-Â�age and unemployment insurance, job training, the host of assorted programs Â�under the mislabeled “war on poverty,” farm price supports, and so on at incredible length.â•‹.â•‹.â•‹.╋╉The Negative Income Tax would be vastly superior to this collection
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as the “negative rates taxation” proposed by Robert J. Lampman (1965), according to Tobin (New York Times, March 8, 1997) “the intellectual architect of the war on poverty.” 77. Tobin 1965, 1968. 78. “The essential characteristic of demogrants is that the payment is made to all families in the potential eligible group, regardless
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on Freedom and the Negative Income Tax.” Basic Income Studies 10(2): 169–191. Quadagno, Jill. 1995. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press. Québec solidaire. 2014. Plateforme électorale. Elections 2014. Montréal: Québec solidaire. Quinn, Michael. 1994. “Jeremy Bentham on the Relief of Indigence
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, 257n59, 315nn153,154. See also Unpaid work Voting rights, 270n26 Wage subsidies, 44–45, 262n32, 263n38 Wagner, Adolf, 65 Walker, Mark, 287n72 Walras, Leon, 78 War on Poverty, in U.S., 67 Weitling, Wilhelm, 194 Welfare economics, 128–129, 221 Werner, Götz, 26, 156, 182, 207, 208 Wijers, Hans, 195 Wogaman, Philip, 311n126
Give People Money
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$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
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Men Without Work
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The New Class Conflict
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