TY - BOOK AU - Judith Russell AU - Judith Russell TI - Economics, bureaucracy, and race: : how Keynesians misguided the war on poverty T2 - Power, conflict, and democracy SN - 9780231112536 U1 - 362.5560973 RUS PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - : Columbia University Press KW - Social Sciences KW - Poverty--Government policy KW - Economic policy N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -