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Changing poverty, changing policies
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Details
- Creator
- Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 422 pages :) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781610445986, 1610445988, 9780871543103, 0871543109
- OCLC
- ocn794701226
- OldControl:muse9781610445986.
- "This volume examines changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies in the United States since the early 1970s"--Page 1.
- Revised versions of papers originally presented at a conference held in May 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger -- pt. 1. Economic changes, demographic changes, and trends in poverty. Poverty levels and trends in comparative perspective / Daniel R. Meyer and Geoffrey L. Wallace -- Economic change and the structure of opportunity for less-skilled workers / Rebecca M. Blank -- Family structure, childbearing, and parental employment : implications for the level and trend in poverty / Maria Cancian and Deborah Reed -- Immigration and poverty in the United States / Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky -- pt. 2. Mobility and its consequences. Enduring influences of childhood poverty / Katherine Magnuson and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal -- Mobility in the United States in comparative perspective / Markus Jantti -- pt. 3. The evolution and scope of antipoverty policies. Trends in income support / John Karl Scholz, Robert Moffitt, and Benjamin Cowan -- The role of family policies in antipoverty policy / Jane Waldfogel -- Improving educational outcomes for poor children / Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig -- Workforce development as an antipoverty strategy : what do we know? what should we do? / Harry J. Holzer -- Health care for the poor : for whom, what care, and whose responsibility? / Katherine Swartz -- pt. 4. The politics of poverty and its meaning in a rich country. Poverty politics and policy / Mary Jo Bane -- What does it mean to be poor in a rich society? / Robert Haveman