Michael Katz's latest book, “The Undeserving Poor: America’s Enduring Confrontation with Poverty,” revisits topics he first explored in his seminal 1989 bestseller, “The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare.”
“It’s really a new book, and one that’s appropriate for this historical moment,” Katz says. It examines the history of the forces behind America’s public policies on poverty, from the 1960’s War on Poverty, to welfare reform in the 1990s, to the current “rightward movement” in the poverty war.