Michael Katz

history professor and research associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Penns

Michael Katz appears in the following:

Who Relies on the Social Safety Net?

Monday, March 24, 2014

The notions of the Welfare Queen and of unemployed poor people taking advantage of federal programs like welfare and food stamps are hard to shake in our society, but they don’t repre...

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A New Look at "The Undeserving Poor"

Monday, November 25, 2013

What causes poverty, and what can we do about it? Michael Katz, author of The Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty, says our social aid policies are based o...

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