Poverty, inequality, and the future of social policy
Subtitle: western states in the new world order
By: Katherine McFate, Roger Lawson, William Julius Wilson, editors.
Contributors: McFate, Katherine.; Lawson, Roger.; Wilson, William J., 1935-
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 756
Subjects: Income distribution -- Europe.; Income distribution -- United States.; Poor -- Europe.; Poor -- United States.; Europe -- Social policy.; United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
Description: During the prosperous 1980s, increased unemployment and widening income inequality throughout the Western world raised the paradoxical specter of a new and acute form of poverty in advanced economies. Rapid technological advances, industrial globalization, loss of low-wage jobs, increased numbers of single-mother families, and new patterns of immigration all placed tremendous strain on social welfare programs designed for a more stable, homogeneous era.

The essays in Poverty, Inequality, and the Future of Social Policy provide a comprehensive account of this economic and social turbulence and analyze the capacities of Western welfare systems to respond effectively to the growing crisis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.