SOCIOL 5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Guaranteed Minimum Income, Supplemental Security Income
Document Summary
Reagan mentions how we had declared war but poverty won. People see outcome of the war are unfavorable. Set of 9 studies by bailey and danzinger. Assess success and failure of lbj"s and his successors strategies to reduce poverty. With evidence it shows that there was a higher ratio of success than failure opposed to polls. One gap in the the book is that war on poverty was more than a bundle of programs. Food stamps, supplemental security income (guaranteed minimum income for the elderly and disabled), section 8 rent subsidies for poor tenants (1969-80) Looking at whether food stamps worked would not make sense to look at the reduction in poverty over past half century. No clear trend in poverty after 1969. Census bureau derives the numbers from a large household survey called annual social and economic supplement (asec), which tries to interview the householder in a representative sample of residences.
