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The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our tradition of individual freedom and libertarian values, while others p
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Paperback, 272 pages
Published
April 1st 1996
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published July 28th 1994)
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