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Why, after "the greatest economic expansion in history" and endless proclamations of "recovery," do most Americans have to step over the homeless nearly every day? How has the richest country on earth created a spectacle of public misery that paralyzes politicians and policy-makers while
forcing average citizens to run a gauntlet of direct moral challenges every time they walk the streets? In The Visible Poor, Joel Blau gives provocative answers to these and many other questions about one of the most difficult issues of our time.
Disproving many convenient myths--that most of the homeless are crazy, drug-addicts, drunks, or lazy misfits who brought their sufferings on themselves--and moving far beyond conventional political explanations, Blau shows that the current crisis was an inevitable result of economic and
political changes that swept through American society in recent decades: the explosion of low-wage jobs, systematic cutbacks in social welfare benefits to maintain the work-incentive, government's failure to provide adequate low-cost housing, and its virtual abandonment of the mentally ill. Blau
argues that current government policies at every level are mired in pointless head-counting and quick-fix solutions that only push the homeless out of sight without touching underlying causes. He advocates instead a range of social reforms--including a national standard for welfare benefits, a
higher minimum wage, and establishment of a social sector for non-profit, affordable housing--that will meet stiff resistance from those entrenched forces in the labor and housing markets that created widespread homelessness in the first place, but that may be our best hope for resolving the current
impasse.
A powerful contribution to public debate on homelessness, The Visible Poor must be read by concerned citizens as well as by policy-makers and advocates.
About the Author:
About the Author:
Joel Blau is Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare, State University of New York at Stony Brook.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195057430
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Height: 243 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 603 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0195057430
  • Publisher Date: 19 Mar 1992
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Homelessness in the United States
  • Width: 162 mm


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