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Poor kids in a rich country : America's children in comparative perspective / Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rainwater, Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor children--United States.
- Poor children.
- Aid to families with dependent children programs--United States.
- Aid to families with dependent children programs.
- Child welfare.
- Poverty.
- Income maintenance programs.
- United States.
- Income maintenance programs--United States.
- Poverty--United States.
- Child welfare--United States.
- Poor children--Europe.
- Aid to families with dependent children programs--Europe.
- Income maintenance programs--Europe.
- Poverty--Europe.
- Child welfare--Europe.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage, ©2003.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In comparing the situation of American children in low-income families with their counterparts in other wealthy countries, Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding provide a powerful perspective on the dynamics of child poverty in the United States.
- Contents:
- Taking the definition of poverty seriously
- I: Child poverty and inequity at the end of the twentieth century
- 1. Child poverty in rich countries in the 1990s: an overview
- 2. Patterns of child economic well-being
- 3. Child poverty and population: is demography destiny?
- 4. Periods of poverty: how long are children poor?
- 5. Income packaging: market income and the state
- 6. Child poverty and income packaging in two-parent families
- 7. Child poverty and income packaging in single-mother families
- 8. Is there hope for America's low-income children?
- II: Choice and method in research on poverty
- 9. Establishing a poverty line
- 10. Establishing equivalent family income
- 11. Whence the poverty standard
- nations or communities?
- The Luxembourg income study project
- The U.S. state database and regional combinations in other countries in the Luxembourg income study
- From relative income to real income
- Reweighting to assess the impact of demography versus income packaging.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-251) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781610444620
- 1610444620
- Publisher Number:
- 99976954635
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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