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Economics, bureaucracy, and race : how Keynesians misguided the war on poverty /Judith Russell

By: Judith RussellContributor(s): Judith RussellMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road,DaryaGanj,New Delhi-110002Series: Power, conflict, and democracyPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press , ©2004Description: x, 244 pages ; 23 cmISBN: 9780231112536Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: Poverty--Government policyDDC classification: 362.5560973 RUS

Contents:

The other war of poverty: the battle for jobs -- Economics ideas and the war on poverty -- Change and incapacity in the department of labor -- Social forces, civil rights, and the struggle for jobs -- Governmental will: the limits of noblesse oblige -- Ideas and government policy making -- Appendix: Joblessness, poverty, and public policy in the United States.

Summary: This is a hard-hitting analysis of the war on poverty in the United States. The book focuses on the genesis of the Economic Opportunity Act in the 1960s which constituted the core of the antipoverty crusade of President Kennedy and President Johnson.

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The other war of poverty: the battle for jobs --
Economics ideas and the war on poverty --
Change and incapacity in the department of labor --
Social forces, civil rights, and the struggle for jobs --
Governmental will: the limits of noblesse oblige --
Ideas and government policy making --
Appendix: Joblessness, poverty, and public policy in the United States.

This is a hard-hitting analysis of the war on poverty in the United States. The book focuses on the genesis of the Economic Opportunity Act in the 1960s which constituted the core of the antipoverty crusade of President Kennedy and President Johnson.

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