Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race: How Keynesians Misguided the War on Poverty

by Judith Russell

Book Overview

In this hard-hitting analysis of the war on poverty, Judith Russell charges that since FDR's New Deal, the U.S. government has introduced many public policies attempting to address poverty, yet it has failed to produce coherent programs to combat it. Focusing on the genesis of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, the core of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson's antipoverty crusade, Russell asserts that the war on poverty could have been an inclusive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231112521
• ISBN13: 9780231112529
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher