The New American PovertyEssay on the political aspects of poverty and social assistance in the USA, from 1960 to 1983 - covers the impact of structural unemployment, downward social mobility, and the plight of blacks, hispanics, American Indians, immigrants, irregular migrants and unmarried mothers (female headed households); criticizes the Reagan fiscal policy as causing income redistribution away from low income groups towards the middle class or wealthy. |
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