Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the Underclass, and Urban Schools as History
Michael B. Katz
Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the Underclass, and Urban Schools as History
Michael B. Katz
Author Michael Katz traces contemporary poverty in the United States back to the 19th-century attitude that poverty was linked to certain forms of bad behavior. Showing how this misdiagnosis has afflicted today’s welfare and educational systems, Katz explores four topicsthe welfare state, the underclass debate, urban school reform, and what strategies the urban poor apply to survive.
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