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Drawing on surveys of public attitudes and analyses of more than 40 years of television and news-magazine stories on poverty, this book demonstrates how public opposition to welfare is fed by a potent combination of racial stereotypes and misinformation about the true nature of America's poor.

Why Americans Hate Welfare

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/2000
      ISBN13: 9780226293653, 978-0226293653
      ISBN10: 0226293653
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      Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Poverty and precarity Welfare and benefit systems

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      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on surveys of public attitudes and analyses of more than 40 years of television and news-magazine stories on poverty, this book demonstrates how public opposition to welfare is fed by a potent combination of racial stereotypes and misinformation about the true nature of America's poor.

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