Poorly understood : what America gets wrong about poverty [electronic resource] / Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock .
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TextLanguage: English Series: Oxford Scholarship OnlinePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) : chartsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190881412 (eISBN)Subject(s): Poor -- United Station | Poverty -- United Station | Public welfare -- United Station | United States -- Social conditions | United States -- Economic conditionsAdditional physical formats: Print version: No titleLOC classification: HV4045 .R36 2021Online resources: e-book Full-text access Subject: Work hard to get ahead; the poor are mostly minorities in inner cities living lazily off of welfare fraud; the government spends more on welfare than anywhere else in the world; America is a land of equal opportunity with easy social mobility for all. These are but a handful of the many myths about poverty in America, some of which have persisted for decades, with significant and harmful consequences on our social policy, our social compacts, and ourselves. This book seeks to challenge and debunk these myths, along the way asking tough questions about how and why they have persisted and what it would take to replace them with true stories.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-236) and index ( pages 238-242).
Work hard to get ahead; the poor are mostly minorities in inner cities living lazily off of welfare fraud; the government spends more on welfare than anywhere else in the world; America is a land of equal opportunity with easy social mobility for all. These are but a handful of the many myths about poverty in America, some of which have persisted for decades, with significant and harmful consequences on our social policy, our social compacts, and ourselves. This book seeks to challenge and debunk these myths, along the way asking tough questions about how and why they have persisted and what it would take to replace them with true stories.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 22, 2021).