Volume 17, Number 2 · August 12, 1971
The Myth that Things Are Getting Better
By Leonard Ross
Rich Man, Poor Man
by Herman P. Miller
Crowell, 305 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Income Redistribution and the Welfare State
by Adrian L. Webb, by Jack E.B. Sieve
G. Bell & Sons (London), £1.90
Two myths about the distribution of income comforted liberals during the 1950s. They believed that incomes were becoming steadily more equal, and that government spending programs uniformly accelerated that trend. Frederick Lewis Allen spoke for a self-satisfied New Deal generation when he said that 'we had brought about a virtually automatic redistribution of income from the well-to-do to the less well-to-do'[1] through the mechanism of the welfare state.
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