{"product_id":"poverty-in-the-united-states-john-r-burch-9781440858499","title":"Poverty in the United States: A Documentary and Reference Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis collection of documents contextualizes the ways in which Americans have addressed the evolving challenges of poverty throughout U.S. history. Each document is accompanied by an analysis that both summarizes its content and considers its impact.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoverty has always been a part of the fabric of American life, and this installment in the \u003cb\u003eDocumentary and Reference Guides\u003c\/b\u003e series fills the gaps left by most educational treatments of the subject, beginning with an examination of poverty at the state and local levels as it was during the early 19th century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA federal plan for addressing poverty was not devised until Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched the New Deal in the 1930s. As these 70 chronologically arranged documents illustrate, the unfinished business of the New Deal, interrupted by World War II, culminated in new legislation during John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty; progress, however, fell victim to the Vietnam War, ushering in decades of rollbacks under presidents of both parties. Noted scholar and librarian John R. Burch Jr. provides thorough coverage of these and contemporary events throughout which poverty has endured, including the Great Recession of 2008-2009, the minimum wage debate, and the Affordable Care Act and attempts to repeal it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John R. Burch Jr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1440858497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781440858499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Greenwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.10h x 8.80w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2018 pg. 91","brand":"John R. Burch Jr","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992000266495,"sku":"9781440858499","price":119.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3df428f4-480f-478f-a17f-d8fd39eb081f.jpg?v=1683313467","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poverty-in-the-united-states-john-r-burch-9781440858499","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}