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Confronting poverty : prescriptions for change
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Comprises 16 chapters dealing with efforts to address poverty in the USA during the period mid-1980s to mid-1990s. Considers the extent of poverty, the effectiveness of antipoverty programmes and p...
Comprises 16 chapters dealing with efforts to address poverty in the USA during the period mid-1980s to mid-1990s. Considers the extent of poverty, the effectiveness of antipoverty programmes and policies, and the political constraints on the formation of antipoverty policy.
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- edited by Sheldon H. Danziger, Gary D. Sandefur, Daniel H. Weinberg
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- Language
- English
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- New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994
- Physical Details
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- viii, 529 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674160819, 9780674160811, 0674160827, 9780674160828
- OCLC
- ocm29635168
- "The chapters in this volume were initially presented at a conference held in May 1992 in Madison, Wisconsin, jointly sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"--Preface
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-517) and index.
- The historical record : trends in family income, inequality, and poverty / S.H. Danziger and D.H. Weinberg -- Public spending on the poor : historical trends and economic limits / G. Burtless -- The dynamics and intergenerational transmission of poverty and welfare participation / P. Gottschalk, S. Mclanahan, and G.D. Sandefur -- The underclass : concept, controversy, and evidence / R.B. Mincy -- Poverty in relation to macroeconomic trends, cycles, and policies / J. Tobin -- The employment strategy : public policies to increase work and earnings / R.M. Blank -- Single-mother families, economic insecurity, and government policy / I. Garfinkel and S. Mclanahan -- Updating urban policy / J.S. Lehman -- Reform of health care for the nonelderly poor / B.L. Wolfe -- Education and the well-being of the next generation / R.J. Murnane -- Systemic educational reform and social mobility : the school Choice controversy / C.F. Manski -- Poverty and immigration in policy perspective / M. Tienda and Z. Liang -- Antipoverty policy, affirmative action, and racial attitudes / L. Bobo and R.A. Smith -- Poverty politics / H. Heclo -- The nature, causes, and cures of poverty : accomplishments from three decades of poverty research and policy / R. Haveman