Abstract
What these trends mean will be hotly debated for some time to come. Neo-conservatives have thus far adopted Charles Murray's (1984) position, charging that the welfare system by destroying individual incentive is re? sponsible for poverty's persistence. In a break with such neo-conservative dogma, Kevin Phillips in The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990) has tried to revive Nixonian "cloth coat populism" and thereby wrest control of Republican Party politics from Reaganite "parvenus." Much to the horror of neo-conservatives, he has introduced the specter of class conflict and class-based politics into the poverty debate. Finally, a renewed welfare agenda is beginning to take shape, as liberal social scientists increasingly focus on ways to reform welfare and extend basic social entitlements for the poor. Wilson's (1987) The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the
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