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Title

Confronting poverty : prescriptions for change / edited by Sheldon H. Danziger, Gary D. Sandefur, Daniel H. Weinberg.

Publication

New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Danziger, Sheldon.
• Sandefur, Gary D., 1951-
• Weinberg, Daniel H.

Description

viii, 529 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Poverty > United States > Congresses
• Public welfare > United States > Congresses
• United States > Social policy > Congresses

Note

• "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"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-517) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 95-5177

ISBN

• 0674160819 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0674160827 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

93050929

OCLC

29635168

Title

Confronting poverty : prescriptions for change / edited by Sheldon H. Danziger, Gary D. Sandefur, Daniel H. Weinberg.

Imprint

New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-517) and index.

Added Author

Danziger, Sheldon.

Sandefur, Gary D., 1951-

Weinberg, Daniel H.

Research Call Number

JFE 95-5177

Sc E 96-864