Changing poverty
By: Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, editors.
Contributors: Cancian, Maria.; Danziger, Sheldon.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780871543103
Subjects: Poverty; Economic assistance, Domestic; Public welfare
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger; title: Poverty levels and trends in comparative perspective / Daniel R. Meyer and Geoffrey L. Wallace; title: Economic change and the structure of opportunity for less-skilled workers / Rebecca M. Blank; title: Family structure, childbearing, and parental employment : implications for the level and trend in poverty / Maria Cancian and Deborah Reed; title: Immigration and poverty in the United States / Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky; title: Enduring influences of childhood poverty / Katherine Magnuson and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal; title: Mobility in the United States in comparative perspective / Markus Jäntti; title: Trends in income support / John Karl Scholz, Robert Moffitt, and Benjamin Cowan; title: The role of family policies in antipoverty policy / Jane Waldfogel; title: Improving educational outcomes for poor children / Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig; title: Workforce development as an antipoverty strategy : what do we know? : what should we do? / Harry J. Holzer; title: Health care for the poor : for whom, what care, and whose responsibility?; title: Katherine swartz; title: Poverty politics and policy / Mary Jo Bane; title: What does it mean to be poor in a rich society? / Robert Haveman.