Why Americans hate welfare

Drawing on surveys of public attitudes and analyses of more than forty years of television and newsmagazine stories on poverty, Gilens 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. But white Americans don't oppose welfare simply because they think it benefits blacks; rather, they think it benefits "undeserving" blacks who would rather live off the government than work, a perception powerfully fueled by the media's negative coverage of the black poor. The public's views on welfare, Gilens shows, are a complex mixture of cynicism and compassion; misinformed and racially charged, they nevertheless reflect both a distrust of welfare recipients and a desire to do more to help the "deserving" poor.

המשפט הראשון: The relationship between the prosperous and the poor is a central concern in all but the simplest societies.

שנה

1999

שפה

English

הוצאה

University Of Chicago Press

מהדורות

4

עמודים

303

ISBN

9780226293653

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata