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The Undeserving Poor - America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Undeserving Poor - America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically
acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring
debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century,
Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new
book. As the first did, it will force all concerned Americans to
reconsider the foundations of our policies toward the poor,
especially in the wake of the Great Recession that began in 2008.
Katz highlights how throughout American history, the poor have been
regarded as undeserving: people who do not deserve sympathy because
they brought their poverty on themselves, either through laziness
and immorality, or because they are culturally or mentally
deficient. This long-dominant view sees poverty as a personal
failure, serving to justify America's mean-spirited treatment of
the poor. Katz reminds us, however, that there are other
explanations of poverty besides personal failure. Poverty has been
written about as a problem of place, of resources, of political
economy, of power, and of market failure. Katz looks at each idea
in turn, showing how they suggest more effective approaches to our
struggle against poverty. The Second Edition includes important new
material. It now sheds light on the revival of the idea of culture
in poverty research; the rehabilitation of Daniel Patrick Moynihan;
the resurgent role of biology in discussions of the causes of
poverty, such as in The Bell Curve; and the human rights movement's
intensified focus on alleviating world poverty. It emphasizes the
successes of the War on Poverty and Great Society, especially at
the grassroots level. It is also the first book to chart the rise
and fall of the "underclass" as a concept driving public policy. A
major revision of a landmark study, The Undeserving Poor helps
readers to see poverty-and our efforts to combat it-in a new light.
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