Confronting Poverty

by Danziger, Sheldon H.; Sandefur, Gary D.; Weinberg, Daniel H.

• ISBN13: 9780674160828
• ISBN10: 0674160827
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

'Confronting Poverty' proposes thoughtful reforms in employment and training, child support, health care, education, welfare, immigration, and urban policies, all crafted from the successes, as well as the failures, of policies over the past three decades.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
The Historical Record: Trends in Family Income, Inequality, and Poverty	p. 18
Public Spending on the Poor: Historical Trends and Economic Limits	p. 51
The Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Welfare Participation	p. 85
The Underclass: Concept, Controversy, and Evidence	p. 109
Poverty in Relation to Macroeconomic Trends, Cycles, and Policies	p. 147
The Employment Strategy: Public Policies to Increase Work and Earnings	p. 168
Single-Mother Families, Economic Insecurity, and Government Policy	p. 205
Updating Urban Policy	p. 226
Reform of Health Care for the Nonelderly Poor	p. 253
Education and the Well-Being of the Next Generation	p. 289
Systemic Educational Reform and Social Mobility: The School Choice Controversy	p. 308
Poverty and Immigration in Policy Perspective	p. 330
Antipoverty Policy, Affirmative Action, and Racial Attitudes	p. 365
Poverty Politics	p. 396
The Nature, Causes, and Cures of Poverty: Accomplishments from Three Decades of Poverty Research and Policy	p. 438
Notes	p. 451
References	p. 479
Contributors	p. 519
Index	p. 521
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