{"title":"The Poverty Paradox","authors":"Romain D. Huret","doi":"10.7591/CORNELL/9780801450488.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/CORNELL/9780801450488.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the invention of the modern poverty paradox – the increase of poor people in spite of economic growth in the 1950s. On this matter, the federal government played a pioneering role. By then, poor people were invisible, and federal officials gather statistics and ponder over new tools of measurement.","PeriodicalId":392994,"journal":{"name":"The Experts' War on Poverty","volume":"452 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115290042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Economist at War","authors":"Romain D. Huret","doi":"10.7591/CORNELL/9780801450488.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/CORNELL/9780801450488.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the role of the Council of Economic Advisers that transformed the science of poverty into a War on Poverty. Robert J. Lampman played a major role in this political decision.","PeriodicalId":392994,"journal":{"name":"The Experts' War on Poverty","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133492763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Pyrrhic Victory","authors":"Romain D. Huret","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9780801450488.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801450488.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter revises the traditional account of the War on poverty by showing that it was for poverty experts a Pyrrhic Victory. They were disappointed by the presidential decision of turning to Community Action Programs as the sole solution to put an end to poverty.","PeriodicalId":392994,"journal":{"name":"The Experts' War on Poverty","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117107514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncertainty of Numbers, Certainty of Decisions","authors":"Romain D. Huret","doi":"10.7591/CORNELL/9780801450488.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/CORNELL/9780801450488.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyses the division among the experts’ community. They soon became divided along gender and political lines once the War on poverty was implemented. However, in spite of their internal divisions, they looked for alternatives to Community Action Programs, notably the idea of a guaranteed income","PeriodicalId":392994,"journal":{"name":"The Experts' War on Poverty","volume":"296 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131638765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}