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Changing poverty, changing policies / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, editors.
- Title
- Changing poverty, changing policies / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2009.
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- Description
- x, 422 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Shows that policy reforms can reduce poverty and promote opportunities for poor workers and their families in the United States. Examines promising strategies to reduce poverty, analysing why little progress has been made, and arguing that income-based poverty measures should be expanded. Covers the period from 1970 to 2007.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Poverty > United States > History
- Poverty > Government policy > History. > United States
- Economic assistance, Domestic > United States > History
- Public welfare > United States > History
- Pauvreté > États-Unis > Histoire
- Pauvreté > Politique gouvernementale > Histoire. > États-Unis
- Economic assistance, Domestic
- Poverty
- Poverty > Government policy
- Public welfare
- poverty alleviation
- social policy
- trend
- lutte contre la pauvreté
- politique sociale
- tendance
- lucha contra la pobreza
- política social
- tendencia
- United States
- USA
- Etats-Unis
- Estados Unidos
- Genre/Form
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- Revised versions of papers originally presented at a conference held in May 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin.
- "This volume examines changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies in the United States since the early 1970s"--Page 1.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780871543103
- 0871543109
- 9781610445986 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2009011413
- OCLC
- 316736983
- SCSB-12660531
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library