A New Look at "The Undeserving Poor"

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 25, 2013

Michael B. Katz, history professor and research associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of The Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised (Oxford University Press, USA, 2013), revisits his 1989 work to again explore the structural causes of poverty and what solutions would address them.

 

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