Changing poverty, changing policies / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cancian, Maria.

Danziger, Sheldon

Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Economic assistance, Domestic.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

x, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2009]

Contents:

Changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger

Poverty levels and trends in comparative perspective / Daniel R. Meyer and Geoffrey L. Wallace

Economic change and the structure of opportunity for less-skilled workers / Rebecca M. Blank

Family structure, childbearing, and parental employment : implications for the level and trend in poverty / Maria Cancian and Deborah Reed

Immigration and poverty in the United States / Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky

Enduring influences of childhood poverty / Katherine Magnuson and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

Mobility in the United States in comparative perspective / Markus Jäntti

Trends in income support / John Karl Scholz, Robert Moffitt, and Benjamin Cowan

The role of family policies in antipoverty policy / Jane Waldfogel

Improving educational outcomes for poor children / Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig

Workforce development as an antipoverty strategy : what do we know? what should we do? / Harry J. Holzer

Health care for the poor : for whom, what care, and whose responsibility?

Katherine Swartz

Poverty politics and policy / Mary Jo Bane

What does it mean to be poor in a rich society? / Robert Haveman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780871543103

0871543109

OCLC:

316736983