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Title: The Moynihan Report Revisted

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Few pieces of social science research have stirred as much controversy or had as great an impact as 1965s The Negro Family: The Case for National Action. The U.S. Department of Labor report, more commonly referred to as the Moynihan report after its author, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, focused on the deep roots of black poverty in the United States. Moynihan argued that the decline of the black nuclear family would significantly impede blacks progress toward economic and social equality. Over the ensuing decades, the report has been hailed by some as prophetic and derided by others as a classic example of blaming the victim. To this day, scholars and advocates concerned about poverty and economic opportunity continue to revisit the issues raised in the Moynihan report.

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Authors: Acs, Gregory; Turner, Margery A.; Sorensen, Elaine; Braswell, Kenneth

Publisher: The Urban Institute

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Topics: Race and Ethnicity

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