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The Poverty Paradox
Romain D. Huret
in The Experts' War on Poverty: Social Research and the Welfare Agenda in Postwar America
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780801450488
- eISBN:
- 9781501709531
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450488.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes the invention of the modern poverty paradox – the increase of poor people in spite of economic growth in the 1950s. On this matter, the federal government played a pioneering ... More
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