A Decade of Federal Antipoverty Programs

Achievements, Failures, and Lessons

Robert H. Haveman

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780123332561
• eBook ISBN: 9781483214078
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

A Decade of Federal Antipoverty Programs: Achievements, Failures, and Lessons presents papers on the war on poverty, dealing with its origins, its education, health, and income maintenance programs, and its community action, legal services, and antidiscrimination policies. The book discusses poverty and social policy in the 1960s and 1970s; the social and political context of the war on poverty; and a decade of policy developments in the income-maintenance system. The text also describes a decade of policy developments in improving education and training for low-income populations; a decade of policy developments in providing health care for low-income families; and the mobilization of low-income communities through community action. 10 Years of legal services for the poor; and a decade of policy-developments in equal opportunities in employment and housing are also considered. Historians and people involved in political sciences will find the book invaluable.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• A Decade of Federal Antipoverty Programs: Achievements, Failures, and Lessons
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Chapter I. Introduction: Poverty and Social Policy in the 1960s and1970s—An Overview and Some Speculations
• Chapter 2. The Social and Political Context of the War on Poverty: An Overview
• Chapter 3. A Decade of Policy Developments in the Income-Maintenance System
• Chapter 4. A Decade of Policy Developments in Improving Education and Training for Low-Income Populations
• Chapter 5. A Decade of Policy Developments in Providing Health Care for Low-Income Families
• Chapter 6. Racial Change and Citizen Participation: The Mobilization of Low-Income Communities through Community Action
• Chapter 7. Ten Years of Legal Services for the Poor
• Chapter 8. A Decade of Policy-Developments in Equal Opportunities in Employment and Housing
• Subject Index