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Anti-poverty programmes in the United States have received much attention from the economics profession since the 1970s. Economists have studied their effectiveness in reducing poverty and increasing well-being among the poor, their rationale and goals, and trends in their caseloads and expenditures. Scholars have also extensively studied the effects of anti-poverty programmes on a wide range of individual and family behaviours.
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Moffiti, R.A. (2008). anti-poverty programmes in the United States. In: Durlauf, S.N., Blume, L.E. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-58802-2_47
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