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Drawing on surveys of public attitudes and analyses of more than 40 years of television and news-magazine stories on poverty, this book demonstrates how public opposition to welfare is fed by a potent combination of racial stereotypes and misinformation about the true nature of America's poor.Gilens, Martin is the author of 'Why Americans Hate Welfare Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy', published 2000 under ISBN 9780226293653 and ISBN 0226293653.
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