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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"War on Poverty"”.
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The Forgotten Fight: Waging War on Poverty in New York City, 1945-1980
This dissertation recounts how community groups in postwar New York City tapped into growing government engagement with urban problems, which culminated in President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 declaration of "unconditional war on poverty." Focusing on the discourse among grassroots activists, social …
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Poverty on the Periphery: U.S. Implementation of Modernization Theory in the Alliance for Progress and the War on Poverty
… of this paper is to compare how modernization theory was implemented during the Alliance for Progress and the War on Poverty and to explore how this impacted power structures at the national level in the Alliance and the local level in the War on Poverty There have been some earlier works …
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The Federal State And Hegemony: Politics In Floyd County, Kentucky And The Latter Years Of The War On Poverty
<p>The central question this thesis addresses is how increasing federal power impacted local peoples, both politicians and otherwise. Kentucky politics was an already convoluted subject of local interconnected patronage without adding even more possible connections. The War on Poverty did just …
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The"War on Poverty" and "Welfare Reform": A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Elite Newspaper Editorial Coverage in 1964 and 1996
<p>From the time of the "war on poverty" of 1964, to the era of "welfare reform" in 1990s, the federal welfare system underwent a change from a model that acted to protect citizens from the vagaries of the market economy to one that mandated their participation in the paid labor force. For a shift …
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Private Welfare Agencies and Their Role in Government-Sponsored Welfare Programs: The Case of The War on Poverty in Chicago
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317504.pdf: 11670319 bytes, checksum: 51ff3f338034766d463ffbbca0175392 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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The Impact of Positive Human Interest Stories on Raising Hope Through Social Media in Kentucky's Promise Zone Counties
… social media has gained dominance over traditional media in an agenda-setting role for journalists, often dictating the news of the day (Pfeffer et al., 2014). With data collected from Kentucky’s Promise Zone counties and C. R. Snyder’s (1991) Hope Scale instrument, this study looks at how the …
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Research and Case Studies on Medicare: The Government's Health Insurance Program for the Aged
Recently, social and economic problems have come to the attention of many Americans. Of great concern have become such topics as, Head Start, War-On-Poverty, Urban Renewal, the Jobs Corps, to mention a few. One such program is Medicare, and my purpose is to discuss general aspects of the Medicare …
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The NIT: Proposed Federal Schemes Versus Existing State Tax-Credit Plans
… new and virgin approach to the eradication of poverty in the United States. This approach has been viewed by some authorities as just one more program to be added to the roster of welfare programs presently in effect. Conversely, other authorities view the NIT approach as a panacea for …
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Personality and Political Leadership Explored: Richard Nixon and the Family Assistance Plan
This thesis explores the notion of personality as it impacts presidential behavior. Relying on the arguably fragmented field of personality and policymaking, the paper offers a case study of President Richard Nixon's experience with the Family Assistance Plan, a landmark piece of welfare reform. In …
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Job Corps to 1973
The largest of the War on Poverty programs, Job Corps, was created to alleviate poverty by providing affective, remedial, and vocational training for disadvantaged youth throughout the country. Job Corps was the first attempt in the United States to establish and operate a national program of …
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Developing A Strategy to Combat Drug Abuse in Philadelphia, 1960-1973
How did Philadelphia develop its first drug control strategy between 1960 and 1973? This study argues that Philadelphia's drug control strategy was part of an array of collaborative responses to the composite challenges of urban decay and was influenced by concerns for development, law enforcement, …
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Soul power: the Black church and the Black Power Movement in Cairo, Illinois, 1969-74
While scholarship on the modern Civil Rights Movement has emphasized the centrality of the Black church, popular and scholarly accounts of Black Power portray a movement marked by a profound de-Christianization. Soul Power upends this prevailing narrative, arguing that the Black church played a …
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Capitalizing on literacy: federal adult education policy in the 20th century
This dissertation argues that federal adult education policy adheres to a human capital discourse that reinforces the flawed perception that literacy acquisition alone begets individual and, by extension, national economic progress. To illuminate the lasting influence of this discourse and the …
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Trafficking in the Spaces of Poverty: Reading the Post-War Wars of American Literature and Culture
Trafficking in the Spaces of Poverty reorients the “post-war” period of American literature and culture through a reading of various cultural and ideological wars at home: the Cold War, the War on Welfare, the War on Poverty and the War on Terror. By bringing together policy documents, sociology, …
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¡El Barrio Unido Jamás Será Vencido!:” Neighborhood Grassroots Activism and Community Preservation in El Paso, Texas
This dissertation chronicles a Mexican American community’s struggle for survival amidst late twentieth century urban revitalization. South El Paso, Texas, a one square mile neighborhood along the U.S.-México border, functioned as a city within a city. For over a century, the ethnic Mexican …
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"Too Poor to Eat": A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps in the United States, 1964-1996
Signed on August 31, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s Food Stamp Act intended to deal with farmer surplus and provide a more nutritious diet for all Americans. Run by the United States Department of Agriculture, and operated as an agriculture program, food stamps remained separated from Johnson’s War on …
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Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies
Envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967, the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) represented a bold attempt to revitalize the black freedom struggle as a movement explicitly based on class, not race. Incorporating African Americans, ethnic Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, American Indians, and poor …
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Benchmarking Community Health Centers; Efficiency: Multivariate Analysis
… funded by the Federal Government as part of the War on Poverty in the mid-1960s. Improving healthcare organizational performance efficiency is paramount. It is an especially pressing need for CHCs' because they carry a disproportionate burden of caring for the uninsured within limited budgets. …
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Three Essays on Economic Growth and Natural Resources
This dissertation is a collection of papers examining the relationship between resource intensity and economic growth in the Appalachian region of the United States. The first chapter develops a homogenous sample of counties within the Appalachian region and uses that sample to investigate how coal …
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"From Daniel Boone to the Beverly Hillbillies: tales of a ""fallen"" race, 1873-1968"
… Mountains emerged in lore as the manly frontier setting where such figures as Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket, Kit Carson, Andrew Jackson, and others carved out the wilderness and forged a nation. Theodore Roosevelt went so far as to proclaim that these men and their progeny comprised a …
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