Understanding poverty / / Sheldon H. Danziger, Robert H. Haveman, editors

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Russell Sage Foundation; Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (576 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.5
• Soggetto topico: Poverty; Poor
• Altri autori: DanzigerSheldon HavemanRobert H
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-552) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: The Evolution of Poverty and Antipoverty Policy -- PART II The Evolution of Antipoverty Policies -- 1 The Level, Trend, and Composition of Poverty -- 2 Changes in Family Structure: Implications for Poverty and Related Policy -- 3 The Rising Tide Lifts ...? -- 4 Mobility, Persistence, and the Consequences of Poverty for Children: Child and Adult Outcomes -- 5 U. S. Poverty in a Cross-national Context -- PART II The Evolution of Antipoverty Policies -- 6 The Evolution of Income Support Policy in Recent Decades -- 7 Welfare Policy in Transition: Redefining the Social Contract for Poor Citizen Families with Children and for Immigrants -- 8 Health Policies for the Non-elderly Poor -- 9 Investing in the Future: Reducing Poverty Through Human Capital Investments -- PART III Neighborhoods, Groups, and Communities -- 10 Housing Discrimination and Residential Segregation as Causes of Poverty -- 11 The Memberships Theory of Poverty: The Role of Group Affiliations in Determining Socioeconomic Outcomes -- 12 Community Revitalization, Jobs and the Well-being of the Inner-City Poor -- PART IV Concluding Thoughts -- 13 Politics, Race, and Poverty Research -- 14 Poverty Research and Antipoverty Policy After the Technological Revolution -- 15 Research on Poverty and Antipoverty Policies -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. Understanding Poverty brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding poverty
• ISBN: 0-674-03017-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810872203321
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