Losing Ground (book)

Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980
Cover of the first edition
AuthorCharles Murray
LanguageEnglish
SubjectWelfare state
PublishedNovember 1984 (hardback)
January 1994 (paperback)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages346
ISBN978-0465065882

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. Both its policy proposals and its methodology have attracted significant controversy.