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Author Murray, Charles A.

Title Losing ground : American social policy, 1950-1980 / Charles Murray.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1984]
©1984

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  309.173    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  361.1 M96    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  303.484 M981L    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  361.1 M    Check Shelf
Description xii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 301-316.
Note Includes index.
Contents A generous revolution. The Kennedy transition ; "The system is to blame" ; Implementing the elite wisdom -- Being poor, being black : 1950-1980. Poverty ; Employment ; Wages and occupations ; Education ; Crime ; The family ; The view from 1966 -- Interpreting the data. The social scientists and the great experiment ; Incentives to fail I : maximizing short-term gains ; Incentives to fail II : crime and education ; The destruction of status rewards -- Rethinking social policy. What do we want to accomplish? ; The constraints on helping ; Choosing a future.
Form Also issued online.
Subject United States -- Social policy -- Evaluation.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- Evaluation.
ISBN 0465042317: $23.95
9780465042319
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