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

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
Print Book, English, ©2004
Columbia University Press, New York, ©2004
History
x, 244 pages ; 23 cm.
9780231112529, 9780231112536, 0231112521, 023111253X
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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