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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):
- Child welfare--Europe.
- Child welfare.
- Poverty--Europe.
- Poverty.
- Income maintenance programs--Europe.
- Income maintenance programs.
- Aid to families with dependent children programs--Europe.
- Aid to families with dependent children programs.
- Poor children--Europe.
- Poor children.
- Child welfare--United States.
- Poverty--United States.
- Income maintenance programs--United States.
- Aid to families with dependent children programs--United States.
- Poor children--United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (274 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Poor Kids in a Rich Country, Lee Rainwater and Timothy Smeeding ask what it means to be poor in a prosperous nation - especially for any country's most vulnerable citizens, its children.
- Contents:
- Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Introduction. Taking the Definition of Poverty Seriously; Part I. Child Poverty and Inequality at the End of the Twentieth Century; Chapter 1. Child Poverty in Rich Countries in the 1990s: An Overview; Chapter 2. Patterns of Child Economic Well-Being; Chapter 3. Child Poverty and Population: Is Demography Destiny?; Chapter 4. Periods of Poverty: How Long Are Children Poor?; Chapter 5. Income Packaging: Market Income and the State; Chapter 6. Child Poverty and Income Packaging in Two-Parent Families
- Chapter 7. Child Poverty and Income Packaging in Single-Mother FamiliesChapter 8. Is There Hope for America's Low-Income Children?; Part II. Choice and Method in Research on Poverty; Chapter 9. Establishing a Poverty Line; Chapter 10. Establishing Equivalent Family Income; Chapter 11. Whence the Poverty Standard- Nations or Communities?; Appendix A. The Luxembourg Income Study Project; Appendix B. The U.S. State Database and Regional Combinations in Other Countries in the Luxembourg Income Study; Appendix C. From Relative Income to Real Income
- Appendix D. Reweighting to Assess the Impact of Demography Versus Income PackagingNotes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-251) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-462-0
- OCLC:
- 922324643
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