Changing poverty, changing policies / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, editors.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York, NY : Russell Sage Foundation, c2009.
Description
422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780871543103 (alk. paper)
  • 0871543109 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2009011413
OCLC
316736983
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