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E-book
Author Wages, Michele, 1965- author.

Title The achievement gap : a poverty crisis, not an education crisis / Michele Wages
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Child poverty -- Unemployment -- Race and poverty -- Family characteristics -- School behavior -- Homelessness -- Gangs and poverty -- Why has the income achievement gap grown? -- Is government assistance the answer? -- What needs to be done?
Summary "Dr. Wages has written a detailed, well documented book that can serve as an informative resource to create an awareness of the multidimensional and complex issues of poverty"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 30, 2018)
Subject Poverty -- United States
Poor children -- United States -- Social conditions
Children with social disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Children with social disabilities -- Social conditions
Poor children -- Social conditions
Poverty
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018032313
ISBN 9781475841923
1475841922