Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
by Charles Murray
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Beginning in the 1950s, America entered a period of unprecedented social reform. This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and '70s had the unintended and perverse effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, ignorance, and discrimination. Using widely understood and accepted data, it conclusively demonstrates that the amalgam of reforms from 1965 to 1970 actually made matters worse. Why? Charles Murray's tough-minded answers show more to this question will please neither radical liberals nor radical conservatives. He offers no easy solutions, but by forcing us to face fundamental intellectual and moral problems about whom we want to help and how, Losing Ground marks an important first step in rethinking social policy. show lessTags
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The book doesn't lend itself to the audio book format, which was how I tried to "read" it. It's more of a text book than a good read, and you really need to focus on the information to absorb it, and unfortunately, my mind continued to drift while listening.
Hugely influential in the debate on Welfare that proceeded welfare reform in the middle '90s
reasons that welfare is not good for the poor long term
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- Canonical title
- Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
- Original title
- Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
- Original publication date
- 1984
- Important places
- USA
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Sociology, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Economics, History, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 305.896073 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups Africans and people of African descent; Blacks of African origin standard subdivisions / located in North America African Americans {United States Blacks}
- LCC
- HN57 .M84 — Social sciences Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social history and conditions. Social problems. By region or country
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- (4.07)
- Languages
- English, Polish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 12
- ASINs
- 6
