Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
Ebook292 pages7 hours
Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
About this ebook
Tackling one of the most volatile issues in contemporary politics, Martin Gilens's work punctures myths and misconceptions about welfare policy, public opinion, and the role of the media in both. Why Americans Hate Welfare shows that the public's views on welfare 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.
"With one out of five children currently living in poverty and more than 100,000 families with children now homeless, Gilens's book is must reading if you want to understand how the mainstream media have helped justify, and even produce, this state of affairs." —Susan Douglas, The Progressive
"Gilens's well-written and logically developed argument deserves to be taken seriously." —Choice
"A provocative analysis of American attitudes towards 'welfare.'. . . [Gilens] shows how racial stereotypes, not white self-interest or anti-statism, lie at the root of opposition to welfare programs." -Library Journal
"With one out of five children currently living in poverty and more than 100,000 families with children now homeless, Gilens's book is must reading if you want to understand how the mainstream media have helped justify, and even produce, this state of affairs." —Susan Douglas, The Progressive
"Gilens's well-written and logically developed argument deserves to be taken seriously." —Choice
"A provocative analysis of American attitudes towards 'welfare.'. . . [Gilens] shows how racial stereotypes, not white self-interest or anti-statism, lie at the root of opposition to welfare programs." -Library Journal
Read more from Martin Gilens
Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Why Americans Hate Welfare
Related ebooks
Post-Racial or Most-Racial?: Race and Politics in the Obama Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSee How They Ran Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The State and Labor in Modern America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plowed Under: Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Class and Power in the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBreaking the Impasse: Electoral Politics, Mass Action, and the New Socialist Movement in the United States Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSo Rich, So Poor: Why It's so Hard to End Poverty in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why Bernie Sanders Matters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The New Prophets of Capital Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChoice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Democracy Fix: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Racial Order Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeneration Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLabor'S War At Home: The Cio In World War Ii Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Politics For You
The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The January 6th Report Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capitalism and Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear: Trump in the White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The U.S. Constitution with The Declaration of Independence and The Articles of Confederation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on the U.S.-Israeli War on the Palestinians Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
JOSEPH STIGLITZ ON INEQUALITY, WAR PROFITEERS, AND A NEW COLD WAR 0% found this document usefulEp. 424 - COINTELPRO 2.0 100% found this document usefulHeather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and empathy 0% found this document usefulWeekly Roundup: So Pro Life They'll Let You Die 0% found this document usefulUnderstanding Poverty: Mark Rank: "Poverty is really systemic.” 0% found this document usefulHow the Right Lost Its Mind 0% found this document usefulCarol Anderson, "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" (Bloomsbury, 2021) 0% found this document usefulSandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap 100% found this document usefulDana Mills, "Rosa Luxemburg" (Reaktion Books, 2020): An interview with Dana Mills 0% found this document usefulHow the radical right weaponized ideology (with Nancy MacLean) 0% found this document usefulHow To Be A Smart Media Critic Who Knows Propaganda When They See It 0% found this document usefulCarol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump 0% found this document usefulHow taxpayers subsidize corporate profits (with Rana Foroohar and David Dayen) 0% found this document usefulA devastating indictment of the Republican Party: An insider perspective on the GOP’s march to Trumpism 0% found this document usefulDr. Allyson Hobbs of Stanford, on Racial Passing: Allyson Hobbs, an Assistant Professor in the Depa… 0% found this document usefulThe Decline And Resurgence Of Black Farmers: After 100 years in decline, black farmers are making a comeback. 0% found this document useful
Related articles
How Progressives Can Take Back the Constitution The AtlanticArticle
How Progressives Can Take Back the Constitution
Feb 8, 2022
15 min readMaps Of Asthma Emergencies Show Legacy Of Redlining FuturityArticle
Maps Of Asthma Emergencies Show Legacy Of Redlining
Jun 3, 2019
2 min readWhat Ails the Right Isn’t (Just) Racism The AtlanticArticle
What Ails the Right Isn’t (Just) Racism
Aug 9, 2019
11 min readThe White Men's Club Leading America's Largest Cities The AtlanticArticle
The White Men's Club Leading America's Largest Cities
Apr 9, 2018
14 min readCommentary: The 2nd Amendment Isn't The Problem Los Angeles TimesArticle
Commentary: The 2nd Amendment Isn't The Problem
Apr 2, 2018
3 min readThe Politics of Inequality Rotman ManagementArticle
The Politics of Inequality
Sep 1, 2017
How would you describe the differences between inequality in Canada and in the U.S.? In both countries, at one end of the spectrum, we have poverty, and on the other, we have the 1%. Actually, I should say the .01%, because that is the group I am mos
7 min readA Flawed Case Against Black Self-Defense ReasonArticle
A Flawed Case Against Black Self-Defense
Nov 19, 2021
5 min readGentrification and Inequality Manhattan InstituteArticle
Gentrification and Inequality
Jun 23, 2020
3 min read'Shadow Network' Offers A Lesson On The American Right's Mastery Of Politics NPRArticle
'Shadow Network' Offers A Lesson On The American Right's Mastery Of Politics
Oct 29, 2019
3 min readWhy Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class? Literary HubArticle
Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?
Sep 28, 2020
9 min readRacism Is Literally Bad For Your Health NPRArticle
Racism Is Literally Bad For Your Health
Oct 28, 2017
2 min readWhite Supremacy Is the Achilles Heel of American Democracy The AtlanticArticle
White Supremacy Is the Achilles Heel of American Democracy
Apr 17, 2018
10 min readWhy U.S. Population Growth Is Collapsing The AtlanticArticle
Why U.S. Population Growth Is Collapsing
Mar 28, 2022
4 min readStudent Loans: To Solve the Problem, Understand the History KiplingerArticle
Student Loans: To Solve the Problem, Understand the History
Jun 10, 2019
Billionaire Robert F. Smith recently pledged to pay off all of Morehouse College class of 2019's student loans. To do so, he announced his family is establishing a near $40 million endowment fund for the college. While this is a magnificent and inspi
4 min readThe Supreme Court Is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power The AtlanticArticle
The Supreme Court Is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power
Jun 8, 2022
7 min readKimberlé Crenshaw: Up in Arms, a Conversation About Women and Weapons Guernica MagazineArticle
Kimberlé Crenshaw: Up in Arms, a Conversation About Women and Weapons
Mar 28, 2018
13 min readStudy: Women's Health Worsened Over 5 Years After Being Denied An Abortion Los Angeles TimesArticle
Study: Women's Health Worsened Over 5 Years After Being Denied An Abortion
Jun 11, 2019
4 min readThe Lesson of the Jussie Smollett Case The AtlanticArticle
The Lesson of the Jussie Smollett Case
Feb 22, 2019
4 min readHow Did It Come to This? The AtlanticArticle
How Did It Come to This?
Jul 30, 2021
The Delta variant is winning, for the moment, and the CDC’s coronavirus map shows that we’re failing to fight it.
6 min readThis Is the Long Game of Republican Economics The AtlanticArticle
This Is the Long Game of Republican Economics
Dec 7, 2017
4 min readBethany McLean On The Strange Saga Of The US Mortgage Giants Literary HubArticle
Bethany McLean On The Strange Saga Of The US Mortgage Giants
Aug 31, 2020
2 min readThe American Civil War Didn't End. And Trump Is A Confederate President | Rebecca Solnit The GuardianArticle
The American Civil War Didn't End. And Trump Is A Confederate President | Rebecca Solnit
Nov 4, 2018
8 min readThe Men Who Turned Slavery Into Big Business The AtlanticArticle
The Men Who Turned Slavery Into Big Business
Apr 20, 2021
6 min readMartin Luther King’s Radical Anti-Capitalism The Paris ReviewArticle
Martin Luther King’s Radical Anti-Capitalism
Jan 15, 2018
4 min readWhat The Ebbs And Flows Of The KKK Can Tell Us About White Supremacy Today NPRArticle
What The Ebbs And Flows Of The KKK Can Tell Us About White Supremacy Today
Dec 8, 2018
8 min readImagine Another American Civil War, But This Time In Every State NPRArticle
Imagine Another American Civil War, But This Time In Every State
Jan 10, 2022
If America has another civil war, it is more likely to be a war within the states than between them. Citizens of any state of any size, red or blue, may not have to go far to find a fight.
5 min readLetters: Progressive Policy Proposals ‘Are Not Far Left; They Are Dead Center’ The AtlanticArticle
Letters: Progressive Policy Proposals ‘Are Not Far Left; They Are Dead Center’
Apr 10, 2019
2 min readImagining Post-Trump Nationalism The AtlanticArticle
Imagining Post-Trump Nationalism
Jun 30, 2019
12 min readWhy It Matters That Politicians Have No Experience of Poverty The AtlanticArticle
Why It Matters That Politicians Have No Experience of Poverty
Jun 2, 2014
6 min readHow Slavery Lives On in the American Prison-Industrial Complex Literary HubArticle
How Slavery Lives On in the American Prison-Industrial Complex
Oct 16, 2018
7 min read
Reviews for Why Americans Hate Welfare
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
5 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Why Americans Hate Welfare - Martin Gilens
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1