public welfare in mass media

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public welfare in mass media

Why Americans hate welfare

race, media, and the politics of antipoverty policy
1999
Explores what Americans in general think about the poor--their images of poverty, their beliefs about its causes, and their notions of what the government's response to poverty should or should not be; and argues that cynical views of welfare and its recipients are permeated by racist beliefs.
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