Understanding poverty

Understanding poverty / Sheldon H. Danziger, Robert H. Haveman, editors.

In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. Understanding Poverty brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusin...

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Other Authors: Danziger, Sheldon, Haveman, Robert H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge, Mass. : Russell Sage Foundation ; Harvard University Press, ©2001.
Series:Russell Sage Foundation Ser.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Poverty.
Poverty > United States.
poverty.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Social policy
Economic policy
Economic history
Poverty
Armoede.
Pobreza > Estados unidos.
Política social > Estados unidos.
United States > Economic conditions > 20th century.
United States > Social policy.
United States > Economic policy.
United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
United States
Estados Unidos (CondiÇÕes Sociais;CondiÇÕes EconÔmicas)
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. Understanding Poverty brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 566 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-552) and index.
ISBN:9780674030176
0674030176
9780674007673
0674007670
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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