Poorly understood : what America gets wrong about poverty /

Work hard to get ahead; the poor are mostly minorities in inner cities living lazily off of welfare fraud; the government spends more on welfare than anywhere else in the world; America is a land of equal opportunity with easy social mobility for all. These are but a handful of the many myths about...

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Main Authors: Rank, Mark R., (Author), Eppard, Lawrence M., (Author), Bullock, Heather E., (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
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Online Access:Oxford scholarship online