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<br> A convincing and clear historical perspective on the peculiar perceptions of poverty and welfare in the United States --William Julius Wilson, University of Chicago <br><p><br> The Undeserving Poor is likely to become the definitive history of contemporary poverty policy. Not only is Michael B. Katz a fine scholar, but he brings to his subject a deep empathy for the marginalized and the outcast. --Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York <br><p><br> A broadly conceived and provocative review of America's recent efforts to help the poor and its return to punishing them. --Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University <br><p><br> With the publication of The Undeserving Poor, Michael B. Katz is destined to join a select set of brilliant writers who have changed how America thinks about poverty. Like Michael Harrington's The Other America and William Ryan's Blaming the Victim, this new book has the real promise of shattering stereotypes. --Barry Bluestone, University of Massachusetts <br><p><br>

A convincing and clear historical perspective on the peculiar perceptions of poverty and welfare in the United States --William Julius Wilson, University of Chicago The Undeserving Poor is likely to become the definitive history of contemporary poverty policy. Not only is Michael B. Katz a fine scholar, but he brings to his subject a deep empathy for the marginalized and the outcast. --Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York A broadly conceived and provocative review of America's recent efforts to help the poor and its return to punishing them. --Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University With the publication of The Undeserving Poor, Michael B. Katz is destined to join a select set of brilliant writers who have changed how America thinks about poverty. Like Michael Harrington's The Other America and William Ryan's Blaming the Victim, this new book has the real promise of shattering stereotypes. --Barry Bluestone, University of Massachusetts As students of poverty and inequality, we grew up with the classic first edition of The Undeserving Poor. Now, Michael Katz has undertaken a rigorous revision. But this new book is more than a second edition. It is an extraordinary analysis of shifts in academic research and political paradigms, as well as a global perspective on the question of poverty in America. Katz once again demonstrates that he is one of the most influential and creative social historians of our times. --Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Poverty Capital Michael Katz has done a magnificent job of revising his classic text. It draws on a remarkable range of new material while retaining the clarity, historical perspective, and ethical sensibilities of the original. Everybody, from beginning student to seasoned expert, has something to learn from this important book. --Alice O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara With the 50th anniversary of the

A convincing and clear historical perspective on the peculiar perceptions of poverty and welfare in the United States . William Julius Wilson, University of Chicago

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Michael B. Katz was the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of Why Don't American Cities Burn?, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State, and In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America, he was a past-president of the History of Education Society and the Urban History Association. The first edition of The Undeserving Poor was a semi-finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and a finalist for the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award.

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