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Title: Poverty in Twentieth-Century America

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Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: In twentieth-century America the history of poverty begins with most working people living on the edge of destitution, periodically short of food, fuel, clothing, and shelter. It ends with poverty greatly reduced, its components reshuffled. It is a story of both malleability and resilience of poverty reworked by great economic, cultural, and political forces, and of poverty stubbornly resistant to rising affluence and productivity. It spans the time when the experience of scarcity tainted beliefs in the possibility of universal comfort and prosperity with the tinge of utopian fantasy and an era when the continued existence of material deprivation amid unparalleled abundance seemed unnecessary, indeed, a national disgrace....

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Authors: Katz, Michael B.; Stern, Mark J.

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Publication Number: 7

Institution: America at the Millennium Project

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Poverty and Welfare

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