Winning the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the Great Recession
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In this War on Poverty Conference presentation, James Sullivan discusses the successes of U.S. safety net programs from President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program of the 1960s to the most recent economic recession. The Center for Poverty Research hosted the conference at UC Davis on Jan. 9 and 10, 2014. Sullivan is an Associate Professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, and a research affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan.
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