The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual

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Sometime between 1964 and 1994, the war on poverty turned into a war on the poor, with the Republicans and Democrats blaming them for their own poverty. This book provides the defence for these people, examining middle-class welfare; family values; child support; teen poverty; the minimum wage; the underclass; orphanages; health; hunger; corporate welfare; block grants; private charity; and work requirements and incentives. Using charts, graphs and political cartoons, the book is also a manual for action. It includes a list of addresses and phone numbers of activist groups, lobbying organizations, information sources and media contacts.

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Nancy Folbre, a MacArthur Fellow, is professor emerita of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the the author of The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values and Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education; a co-author, with Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, James Heintz, and the Center for Popular Economics, of Field Guide to the U.S. Economy; and a co-author, with Randy Albelda, of The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual, all published by The New Press. Her academic books include For Love and Money: Care Provision in the U.S. and Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas. She is a regular contributor to the New York Timess Economix blog.

Randy Albelda is an associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She is the coauthor of Mink Coats Dont Trickle Downand Bottomless Pits and Glass Ceilings.