Poverty in the United States : a documentary and reference guide / John R. Burch Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burch Jr., John R., author.

Burch, John R., 1968- author.

Series:

Documentary and Reference Guides.

Documentary and Reference Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Law and legislation--United States--History--Sources.

Public welfare.

Public welfare--United States--History.

Poverty--Government policy--United States--History.

Poverty.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

United States--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 408 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Westport, CT : Greenwood, 2018.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This collection of documents contextualizes the ways in which Americans have addressed the evolving challenges of poverty throughout U.S. history. Each document is accompanied by an analysis that both summarizes its content and considers its impact. Poverty has always been a part of the fabric of American life, and this installment in the Documentary and Reference Guides series fills the gaps left by most educational treatments of the subject, beginning with an examination of poverty at the state and local levels as it was during the early 19th century. A federal plan for addressing poverty was not devised until Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched the New Deal in the 1930s. As these 70 chronologically arranged documents illustrate, the unfinished business of the New Deal, interrupted by World War II, culminated in new legislation during John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty; progress, however, fell victim to the Vietnam War, ushering in decades of rollbacks under presidents of both parties. Noted scholar and librarian John R. Burch Jr. provides thorough coverage of these and contemporary events throughout which poverty has endured, including the Great Recession of 2008-2009, the minimum wage debate, and the Affordable Care Act and attempts to repeal it.

Contents:

Native Americans

Early local and state perspectives

The Civil War to the roaring '20s

The Great Depression and the New Deal

The post-World War II era through the Jimmy Carter administration

The Reagan revolution through the Clinton administration

The new millennium.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400699641

9798216130949

9781440858505

1440858500

OCLC:

1010703104