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Poverty and the Underclass - Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America (Paperback, New Ed)
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Poverty and the Underclass - Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America (Paperback, New Ed)
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Explains the failure-on both sides of the aisle-of the War on
Poverty The much-heralded War on Poverty has failed. The number of
children living in poverty is steadily on the rise and an
increasingly destructive underclass brutalizes urban neighborhoods.
America's patience with the poor seems to have run out: even cities
that have traditionally been havens for the homeless are arresting,
harassing, and expelling their street people. In this timely work,
William Kelso analyzes how the persistence of poverty has resulted
in a reversal of liberal and conservative positions during the last
thirty years. While liberals in the 1960s hoped to eliminate the
causes of poverty, today they increasingly seem resigned to merely
treating its effects. The original liberal objective of giving the
poor a helping hand by promoting equal opportunity has given way to
a new agenda of entitlements and equal results. In contrast,
conservatives who once suggested that trying to eliminate poverty
was futile, now seek ways to eradicate the actual causes of
poverty. Poverty and the Underclass suggests that the arguments of
both the left and right are misguided and offers new explanations
for the persistence of poverty. Looking beyond the codewords that
have come to obscure the debate-underclass, family values, the
culture of poverty,-Kelso emphasizes that poverty is not a
monolithic condition, but a vast and multidimensional problem.
During his Presidential campaign, Bill Clinton called for an
overhaul of the welfare system and spoke of a new covenant to unite
both the left and right in developing a common agenda for fighting
poverty. In this urgent, landmark work, William Kelso merges
conservative, radical, and liberal ideals to suggest how the
intractable problem of poverty may be solved at long last by
implementing the principles of this new covenant.
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