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Lives on the line : American families and the struggle to make ends meet / Martha Shirk, Neil G. Bennett, and J. Lawrence Aber.
Van Pelt Library HQ792.U5 S534 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shirk, Martha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor children--United States--Case studies.
- Poor children.
- Poor--United States--Case studies.
- Poor.
- Families--United States--Case studies.
- Families.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- The authors meld sophisticated demographic analysis with affecting personal profiles to show what life is like for the 13 million children growing up below the poverty line.
- Contents:
- 1 Palmerton, Pennsylvania 11
- 2 Oakland, California 35
- 3 Randolph County, Illinois 57
- 4 Honolulu, Hawaii 85
- 5 Louisville, Kentucky 109
- 6 Basalt, Colorado 131
- 7 Westchester County, New York 153
- 8 Suburban St. Louis 179
- 9 Belzoni, Mississippi 201
- 10 Grand Rapids, Michigan 223
- 11 The Demographics of Young Child Poverty in the United States: Putting the Families in Perspective 243
- 12 Conclusion: Reading Lives on the Line 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-280) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813366534
- OCLC:
- 41256222
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