Losing Ground (book)
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Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 is a 1984 book about the effectiveness of welfare state policies in the United States between 1950 and 1980 by the political scientist Charles Murray.
Cover of the first edition
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is a US conservative think tank focused on domestic policy and urban affairs. The institute's focus covers a wide variety of issues, including healthcare, h
Losing Ground (book)
…Charles Murray. Both its policy proposals and its methodology have attracted significant controversy. Murray wrote the book while a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, then under the aegis of Irving Kristol. The Manhattan Institute funded his work on the book and also promoted it. Approximately $25,000 of the Manhattan…
President Bush addresses a meeting of the Manhattan Institute at Federal Hall National Memorial on November 13, 2008.
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George Kelling stands with leaders of the Detroit Police Department and other local officials at a press conference in 2013. The department partnered with Manhattan Institute for new ways to protect the neighborhoods in the area.
Cory Booker speaks about the City of Newark at a Manhattan Institute event in New York City on May 22, 2008.