Populations at Risk in America
Subtitle: Vulnerable Groups at the End of the Twentieth Century
Contributors: George J. Demko (Editor); Michael C. Jackson (Editor)
Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Published: October 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780813389462
Subjects: Social issues; Social welfare & social services; Social Policy; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; USA; Minority Studies; Minority Studies - Ethnic American; 20th century; History; Homelessness; Marginality, Social; People with social disabilities; United States
Description: As this century draws to a close and the new one approaches, the United States is still struggling with serious and persistent social problems. These troubling dilemmas, including poverty, homelessness, discrimination, and severe inequity, afflict some subgroups of the population more than others, and it is the plight of these at-risk groups - children, growing numbers of homeless families and individuals, people of color, poor mothers - that this timely volume explores.

Contributors to this forward-looking book include some of the most respected and distinguished social scientists in the United States.