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The Undeserving Poor

America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty

Michael B. Katz

This influential book from Michael B. Katz challenges America's view of poverty as a personal failure, highlighting alternative explanations such as place, resources, and market failure. With updated material on recent developments and successes, this compelling read is a must for anyone interested in understanding and combatting poverty.
Publish Date
1990-01-03T00:00:00.000Z
1990-01-03T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1989
Goodreads Rating
3.89
ISBN
9780199933952
Recommendations
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Recommendations
2022-09-22T14:37:57.000Z
@cddull I recommend reading Jan Poppendieck’s Sweet Charity and Mike Katz’s The Undeserving Poor for deep discussions of this longstanding problem.      source