Changing poverty, changing policies /
Changing poverty, changing policies /
Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, editors.
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2009.
- x, 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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"--P. 1.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies / Economic changes, demographic changes, and trends in poverty. Poverty levels and trends in comparative perspective / Economic change and the structure of opportunity for less-skilled workers / Family structure, childbearing, and parental employment : implications for the level and trend in poverty / Immigration and poverty in the United States / Mobility and its consequences. Enduring influences of childhood poverty / Mobility in the United States in comparative perspective / The evolution and scope of antipoverty policies. Trends in income support / The role of family policies in antipoverty policy / Improving educational outcomes for poor children / Workforce development as an antipoverty strategy : what do we know? what should we do? / Health care for the poor : for whom, what care, and whose responsibility? / The politics of poverty and its meaning in a rich country. Poverty politics and policy / What does it mean to be poor in a rich society? / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger -- Daniel R. Meyer and Geoffrey L. Wallace -- Rebecca M. Blank -- Maria Cancian and Deborah Reed -- Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky -- Katherine Magnuson and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal -- Markus Jantti -- John Karl Scholz, Robert Moffitt, and Benjamin Cowan -- Jane Waldfogel -- Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig -- Harry J. Holzer -- Katherine Swartz -- Mary Jo Bane -- Robert Haveman. pt. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3. pt. 4.
9780871543103 (alk. paper) 0871543109 (alk. paper)
2009011413
Poverty--History.--United States
Poverty--Government policy--History.--United States
Economic assistance, Domestic--History.--United States
Public welfare--History.--United States
HC79.P6 / C4274 2009
362.5
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"--P. 1.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies / Economic changes, demographic changes, and trends in poverty. Poverty levels and trends in comparative perspective / Economic change and the structure of opportunity for less-skilled workers / Family structure, childbearing, and parental employment : implications for the level and trend in poverty / Immigration and poverty in the United States / Mobility and its consequences. Enduring influences of childhood poverty / Mobility in the United States in comparative perspective / The evolution and scope of antipoverty policies. Trends in income support / The role of family policies in antipoverty policy / Improving educational outcomes for poor children / Workforce development as an antipoverty strategy : what do we know? what should we do? / Health care for the poor : for whom, what care, and whose responsibility? / The politics of poverty and its meaning in a rich country. Poverty politics and policy / What does it mean to be poor in a rich society? / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger -- Daniel R. Meyer and Geoffrey L. Wallace -- Rebecca M. Blank -- Maria Cancian and Deborah Reed -- Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky -- Katherine Magnuson and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal -- Markus Jantti -- John Karl Scholz, Robert Moffitt, and Benjamin Cowan -- Jane Waldfogel -- Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig -- Harry J. Holzer -- Katherine Swartz -- Mary Jo Bane -- Robert Haveman. pt. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3. pt. 4.
9780871543103 (alk. paper) 0871543109 (alk. paper)
2009011413
Poverty--History.--United States
Poverty--Government policy--History.--United States
Economic assistance, Domestic--History.--United States
Public welfare--History.--United States
HC79.P6 / C4274 2009
362.5