Patrick Moynihan's
Report on the Negro Family was a seminal document in Great Society-era racial politics and public policy. Join us as we talk with
Susan Greenbaum about her new book,
Blaming the Poor: The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty (Rutgers University Press, 2015)
, which chronicles the lasting legacy of
The Moynihan Report and the ways in which housing, criminal justice, education, and poverty policy all still bear its marks.
Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians (New Press, 2004)
, A People's History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008)
, winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford, 2017).