01284nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000060007308200250007910000190010424500640012326000320018730000270021952007710024665000090101765000190102665000240104570000210106920211001115557.0211001b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0465019919  c   223a362.580973bGANW  aHerbert J Gans  aWar Against the PoorbThe Underclass and Antipoverty Policy  aNew YorkbBasic booksc1995  axi,195 pbPBc20x13 cm  aIn his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term “underclass” to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herbert J. Gans shows how this ubiquitous label has relegated a wide variety of people—welfare recipients, the working poor, teenage mothers, drug addicts, the homeless, and others—to a single condemned class, feared and despised by the rest of society. Probing the deep psychological, social, and political reasons why Americans seek to indict millions of poor citizens as “undeserving,” Gans calls for a cease-fire in the undeclared war against the poor. He concludes with a set of innovative, job-centered policy proposals and a multifaceted educational plan to stop the endless flow of new recruits into America's untouchable caste.  aPoor  aPublic Welfare  aEconomic Assistance  aGANS (Herbert J)