POVERTY Rose, Max, Baumgartner, Frank R. statisticPublic policy toward the poor has shifted from an initial optimism during the War on Poverty to an ever-increasing pessimism. Media discussion of poverty has shifted from arguments that focus on the structural causes of poverty or the social costs of having large numbers of poor to portrayals of the poor as cheaters and chiselers and of welfare programs doing more harm than good. As the frames have shifted, policies have followed. We present a simple statistical model that explains poverty spending by the severity of the problem, gross domestic product, and media coverage. We then create a new measure of the relative generosity of U.S. government policy toward the poor and show that it is highly related to the content of newspaper stories. The portrayal of the poor as either deserving or lazy drives public policy. Summary: talks about the poverty policy and welfare abuse.Relevance: working poverty and welfareMLA: Rose, Max, Baumgartner, Frank R. Detailed Record Framing the Poor: Media Coverage and U.S. Poverty Policy, 1960-2008. Policy Studies Journal. Feb2013, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p22-53. | POVERTY Brady, David Baker, Regina S. Finnigan, Ryan U.S. poverty research devotes much more attention to joblessness than to working poverty. Research that does exist on working poverty concentrates on demographics and economic performance and neglects institutions. Building on literatures on comparative institutions, unionization, and states as polities, Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) for the United States, we estimate (1) multi-level logic models of poverty among employed households in 2010; and (2) two-way fixed-effects models of working poverty across