(Re)producing Inequality: The Persistence of Poverty in Contemporary America, Using Opportunity NYC as a Case Study

dc.contributorRemmler, Karen
dc.contributorAmy, Doug
dc.contributor.advisorWilson, Lucas
dc.contributor.authorLovett, Ariela
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-27T13:46:06Z
dc.date.available2011-06-27T13:46:06Z
dc.date.gradyear2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-06-27
dc.description.abstractThis thesis theorizes Opportunity NYC, the first conditional cash transfer program outside the developing world. This program is contextualized within the history of U.S. public policy toward the poor, as well as within the contemporary intellectual and political climate. I argue that Opportunity NYC is problematic insofar as it reinforces a cultural explanation for poverty in the U.S. and disguises structural factors that contribute to the generational poverty it seeks to combat.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCritical Social Thoughten_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/889
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rights.restrictedpublic
dc.subjectpovertyen_US
dc.subjectpublic policyen_US
dc.title(Re)producing Inequality: The Persistence of Poverty in Contemporary America, Using Opportunity NYC as a Case Studyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke College

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