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082			_223 _a362.580973 _bGANW
100			_aHerbert J Gans _9632
245			_aWar Against the Poor _bThe Underclass and Antipoverty Policy
260			_aNew York _bBasic books _c1995
300			_axi,195 p _bPB _c20x13 cm
520			_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.
650			_aPoor _9633
650			_aPublic Welfare _9634
650			_aEconomic Assistance _9635
700			_aGANS (Herbert J) _9636
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