Book Coming Soon! Synopsis The Politics of American Poverty Rogette N. Harris Many Americans, policymakers, and the media have celebrated the “success” of anti-poverty policy reforms.  But how successful were they?  What is more important:  The quality of one’s life or reduced welfare roles?  Assessing the human impact of policy change often requires knowing about the resources of beneficiaries of social services and their conditions of life from various perspectives. This enables us to understand the socio-cultural aspects of people’s lives that create the whole person, which evaluates one’s quality of life.  Therefore, Why is complacency so dangerous and is it a learned trait or an innate behavior?  What roles, if any, does it play in the U.S. poverty debate?  These are the main questions answered in The Politics of American Poverty.

Americans are increasingly concerned with the future welfare of the U.S., and the breakdown of basic American institutions.  These basic institutions include:  soaring rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births that are weakening the development of future generations; unsafe neighborhoods; and schools becoming prisons of discipline instead of learning institutions.  Are government sponsored social programs the blame for all of this?  Of course not.  However, many experts agree they do play a factor in many of the social, political, and economic problems facing the United States.  If the U.S. poverty program continues to grow, more generations of Americans will continue to be trapped in a continuous cycle of becoming more needy, dependent, and poor, which does not help the individual, their family, the American public, and certainly not the U.S. economy. 

Long-Term Government Funded Programs: A Study of Their Impact on Poverty in the United States

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When the U.S. government waged war on poverty in the 1960s, poverty was defined by income. Therefore, the obvious solution was to correct the income shortfall. Decades of research and experience with antipoverty programs have made it clear that poverty involves more complex, interrelated and sometimes-intractable socioeconomic, family, and individual issues; in addition, putting millions of dollars into long-term government funded programs is not the absolute solution. In reality, this money put into social programs have in many ways led to more poverty, as well as state and federal deficits. John F. Kennedy once stated in the early 1960s: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." The more long-term social programs are increased, the more chances generations of Americans will continue to be trapped in a continuous cycle of becoming more needy, dependent, and poor, which does not help the individual, their family, the American public, and certainly not the United States economy. Download the first 25 pages and purchase a copy. Read More