Congressional Representation of the Poor during the Construction of the New Deal Antipoverty Regime, 1933-1946

• In Event: Unequal Influence in Congress

Brief Overview

Representation of the poor during the New Deal presents a mixed record. Lawmakers rhetorically construct a comprehensive view of the poor, but selectively incorporate only a privileged subset of the collectively conceived poor into policy outputs.

Author

• Sean Diament, Northwestern University