Visions of Poverty Welfare Policy and Political Imagination |
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| Author:
| Asen, Robert |
| Series title: | Rhetoric and Public Affairs Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87013-606-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2001 |
| Publisher: | Michigan State University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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To understand completely the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th Century, the various images of poor people that were present must be considered. Visions of Poverty explores these images and the policy debates of the retrenchment era, recounting the ways in which images of the poor appeared in these debates, relaying shifts in images that took place over time, and revealing how images functioned in policy debates to advantage some positions and...
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To understand completely the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th Century, the various images of poor people that were present must be considered. Visions of Poverty explores these images and the policy debates of the retrenchment era, recounting the ways in which images of the poor appeared in these debates, relaying shifts in images that took place over time, and revealing how images functioned in policy debates to advantage some positions and disadvantage others.