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Published on: 4/1/2008
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• Sheldon Danziger, H. J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy: Four decades of antipoverty policies.
Danziger will write a book that evaluates the changing views about the causes of poverty that led first to the expansion of social welfare policies and later to the Reagan retrenchment and the 1996 welfare reform that cut benefits to the poor.
"Americans have implicitly selected a set of social policies, labor market policies and tax policies that result in lower market earnings and lower government benefits for less-skilled workers and a higher poverty rate than that found in most other advanced industrialized countries," Danziger says.He will point out that there are effective labor market, taxation and anti-poverty policies that could be put into place to significantly reduce poverty.