Progress or poverty : the U.S. at the crossroads / Leon H. Keyserling.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Conference on economic progressPublication details: Washington, D.C : Conference on Economic Progress , 1964.Description: 150 pages : illustrations, charts, and graphs ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 309.173
LOC classification:
  • HC 106.5 .K44 1964
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Partial contents:
I. Progress or poverty -- II. The roots and offshoots of poverty -- III. Extent of poverty in the U.S. -- IV. Low incomes above the poverty level, and their impact upon poverty itself -- V. Income distribution and poverty -- VI. The personal characteristics of the poor -- VII. Economic characteristics of the poor -- VIII. Summary of location of poverty among groups in the groups in the United States -- IX. The main attack upon poverty: maximum U.S. economic performance -- X. The identity of social, moral, and economic objectives -- XI. Bad housing and poverty -- XII. Proposed policies and programs: planning a long-range balanced effort --
Summary: "[The current] study .. spell[s] out, in my view better than any thus far undertaken, the basic elements in the are against poverty. It proposed practical remedies on a high plane." - from Introduction by Walter P. Reuther
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Charts and graphs provide extensive statistics on extent and nature of poverty in the United States, predominantly post WWII to 1964.

Appendix contains a detailed summary of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.

I. Progress or poverty -- II. The roots and offshoots of poverty -- III. Extent of poverty in the U.S. -- IV. Low incomes above the poverty level, and their impact upon poverty itself -- V. Income distribution and poverty -- VI. The personal characteristics of the poor -- VII. Economic characteristics of the poor -- VIII. Summary of location of poverty among groups in the groups in the United States -- IX. The main attack upon poverty: maximum U.S. economic performance -- X. The identity of social, moral, and economic objectives -- XI. Bad housing and poverty -- XII. Proposed policies and programs: planning a long-range balanced effort --

"[The current] study .. spell[s] out, in my view better than any thus far undertaken, the basic elements in the are against poverty. It proposed practical remedies on a high plane." - from Introduction by Walter P. Reuther

From the library of Roscoe and Oleta Proctor

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