Poverty and the Underclass: Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0814746616 ISBN 13 : 9780814746615

Editeur : New York University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Poverty and the Underclass 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 ...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0814746616
• ISBN 13: 9780814746615
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352