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Michael Harrington and today's other America /

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Michael Harrington's book The Other America, a groundbreaking study of poverty in America, was published in 1962. Read by President John F. Kennedy, it was probably the driving force behind the "war on poverty." The Boston Globe editorialized that Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps and e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Donovan, Bill
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2001.
Series:Filmakers Library online.
Subjects:
Harrington, Michael, > 1928-1989.
Harrington, Michael, > 1928-1989
Poverty > United States.
Socialism > United States.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
United States > Economic conditions > 1945-
Pauvreté > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1945-
États-Unis > Conditions économiques > 1945-
Economic history
Poverty
Social conditions
Socialism
United States
Since 1945
Documentary.
documentary film.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Documentaires.
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