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War on Poverty or War on the Poor? The Great Society’s Welfare State | Amity Shlaes
Posted: Tue. January 28, 2020, 9:43am PT

This event, held Jan 14, 2020, based on her new book, Great Society: A New History, and drawing on her economic expertise and deep historical knowledge, Ms. Shlaes examines how the costs of the “progressive” entitlement commitments made a half century ago are blocking the very opportunities needed now and in the future for all Americans, especially the most disadvantaged.

Recorded: Tue. January 14, 2020
Experts: Amity R. Shlaes, David J. Theroux
Type: Institute Events
Issues: American History, Banking and Finance, Banking Law and Regulation, Bureaucracy and Government, Business and Entrepreneurship, Corporate Welfare, Culture and Society, Democracy, Economic Policy, Economy, Entitlements and Welfare, Entitlements and Welfare, Family, Federal Tax Policy, Food Stamps, Free Market Economics, Freedom, Government and Politics, Government Power, Government Waste/Pork, Labor and Employment, Labor Law and Regulation, Labor Law and Regulation, Law and Liberty, Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, Philosophy and Religion, Political History, Political Theory, Privatization, Regulation, Social Security, Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism, Taxes, Taxes, Taxes and Budget, Welfare