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Differences that matter : social policy and the working poor in the United States and Canada / Dan Zuberi.
LIBRA HC110.P6 Z83 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zuberi, Dan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--Government policy--United States.
- Poverty.
- Poverty--Government policy--Canada.
- Working poor--United States.
- Working poor.
- Working poor--Canada.
- Poverty--Government policy.
- United States--Social policy.
- United States.
- Social policy.
- Canada--Social policy.
- Canada.
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Public welfare--Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Poverty and policy in the United States and Canada
- The story and the setting
- The union difference
- Health-care differences
- Social welfare policy differences
- Public investment and city-level differences
- Subjective perceptions and future outlook
- Improving the lives of the working poor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801444071
- 0801473128
- OCLC:
- 62782086
- Publisher Number:
- 9780801444074 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801473128 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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