Why America Lost the War on Poverty-and How

Analyzing the War on Poverty, theories of the culture of poverty and the underclass, the effects of Reaganomics, and the 1996 welfare reform, Stricker demonstrates that most antipoverty approaches are futile without the presence (or creation) of good jobs. He argues that a serious public debate is needed about the job situation; social programs must be redesigned, a national health care program must be developed, and economic inequality must be addressed. If we actually want to reduce poverty significantly, he says, we must expand decent jobs and government income programs, redirecting national resources away from the rich and toward those with low incomes.

Frank Stricker is professor of history at California State University, Dominguez Hills

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Golden Age of Laissez-Faire?: The 50s
The 1950s: Limited Government, Limited Affluence	p. 9
Wars on Poverty: The 60s
Planning the War on Poverty: Fixing the Poor or Fixing the Economy?	p. 35
Evaluating the War on Poverty: The Conservatism of Liberalism	p. 61
Moynihan, the Dissenters, and the Racialization of Poverty: A Liberal Turning Point That Did Not Turn	p. 83
Statistics and Theory of Unemployment and Poverty: Lessons from the 60s and the Postwar Era	p. 101
Toward a War on the Poor: The 70s and 80s
The Politics of Poverty and Welfare in the 70s: From Nixon to Carter	p. 117
Too Much Work Ethic: One Reason Poverty Rates Stopped Falling in the 70s, and the Stories That Were Told about It	p. 141
Cutting Poverty or Cutting Welfare: Conservatives Attack Liberalism	p. 157
Reagan, Reaganomics, and the American Poor, 1980-1992	p. 183
The Poor You Will Always Have with You-If You Don't Do the Right Thing: 1993-Present
Staying Poor in the Clinton Boom: Welfare Reform, the Nearby Labor Force, and the Limits of the Work Ethic	p. 209
Bush and Beyond: On Solving and Not Solving Poverty	p. 231
Unemployment, Poverty, Earnings, and Household Structure	p. 245
Annual Official Civilian Unemployment Rate and Author's Estimate of Real Rate, 1959-2005	p. 245
U.S. Poverty Rates, 1950-2004	p. 246
Real Weekly Earnings of Production and Nonsupervisory Workers in the Private Sector, 1964-2005	p. 246
Percentage of Poor by Household Type, 1959, 1979, 1998	p. 247
Groups Often Left Out of Antipoverty Discussions in the 60s and Today	p. 249
Notes	p. 251
Bibliographical Essay	p. 325
Index	p. 329
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