American Promise: Equal Justice and Economic Opportunity

American Promise: Equal Justice and Economic Opportunity
ISBN-10
1351532359
ISBN-13
9781351532358
Series
American Promise
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
140
Language
English
Published
2017-07-12
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Arthur I. Blaustein

Description

This forcefully argued and carefully documented report by the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity criticizes the Reagan Economic Recovery Program on the basis that it separates economic theory from social policy, pursuing the former at the expense of the latter, which hurts the poor and could lead to social chaos. This controversial volume also argues that the current policy proposals for the 1980s ignore national standards of responsi-bility and accountability. The report focuses on five aspects of American social, economic, and po-litical life: unemployment and inflation; federal antipoverty programs and policies; the changing face of poverty and the myths that affect the poor; the role of voluntary associations and the shared moral values of our society; the particular problems of family, child care, and welfare for women in poverty.

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