Title: The road to poverty
First published: 2000
Description: "Dwight Billings and Kathleen Blee examine the making of wealth and inequality in persistently poor rural communities through the history of Clay Country, an especially poor section of the Eastern Kentucky mountains in Appalachia. Though this area has been the target of repeated antipoverty and economic development programs, few of these have had a lasting impact.

The authors uncover the systemic problems and patterns of low income by tracing the economic, sociocultural, and political development of Clay County from early agricultural and industrial development in the nineteenth century to the advent of the timber and coal industry in the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Economic policy, Poverty, Income distribution, Appalachian region, 15.85 history of America, Wirtschaftsentwicklung, Armut, Armoede, Inkomensverdeling, Pauvreté, Revenu, Répartition, Politique économique
Places: Appalachian Region
LC classification: HC107.A127 B55 2000