| Description |
422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger -- 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 -- Enduring influences of childhood poverty / Katherine Magnuson and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal -- Mobility in the United States in comparative perspective / Markus Jäntti -- 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 -- Poverty politics and policy / Mary Jo Bane -- What does it mean to be poor in a rich society? / Robert Haveman |
| Notes |
"This volume examines changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies in the United States since the early 1970s"--P. 1 |
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Revised versions of papers originally presented at a conference held in May 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States -- History.
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Economic assistance, Domestic.
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Poverty -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
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Poverty -- United States -- History.
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Poverty.
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Public welfare -- United States -- History.
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Public welfare.
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| Author |
Cancian, Maria.
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Danziger, Sheldon.
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Russell Sage Foundation.
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| LC no. |
2009011413 |
| ISBN |
9780871543103 (alk. paper) |
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