Reducing Poverty in America : Views and Approaches

by Michael R. Darby

• ISBN13: 9780761900078
• ISBN10: 0761900071
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-21
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

This challenging volume reflects the breadth of the debate over the existence of poverty in the United States and what can be done to eradicate it. With contributions from 21 distinguished social scientists and policy analysts, the book represents the diversity of ideas on how to effectively reduce the social ills of poverty, welfare dependency and the 'underclass'. Four areas of focus in anti-poverty efforts are examined in depth: education, community empowerment, job training and social intervention.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: POVERTY AND THE UNDERCLASS - Michael R Darby

Facing and Reducing Poverty - Douglas J Besharov

Poverty, Welfare Dependency, and the Underclass

Trends and Explanations - David Hayes-Bautista

Poverty and the Underclass

Some Latino Crosscurrents

PART TWO: APPROACHES TO REDUCING POVERTY - Christopher Jencks

Can We Replace Welfare with Work? - Charles Murray

Reducing Poverty and Reducing the Underclass

Different Problems, Different Solutions - Glenn C Loury

A Dissent from the Incentive Approaches to Reducing Poverty

PART THREE: IMPROVING SCHOOLING FOR THE POOR - John E Chubb and Terry M Moe

Politics, Markets, and Equality in Schools - Albert Shanker

Mythical Choice and Real Standards

PART FOUR: TWO STRATEGIES FOR EMPOWERING PEOPLE: POLITICS AND MARKETS - Ernesto J Cort[ac]es Jr

Reweaving the Fabric

The Iron Rule and the IAF Strategy for Power and Politics - John C Weicher

New War on Poverty

The Kemp Program to Empower the Poor - Robert L Woodson Sr

What We Can Learn from Grassroots Leaders

PART FIVE: JOB TRAINING: FROM WELFARE TO PAYROLLS - Judith M Gueron

Welfare and Poverty

Strategies to Increase Work - Lawrence M Mead

Raising Work Levels among the Poor - Margaret C Simms

Training, Work, and Poverty

PART SIX: REDUCING POVERTY THROUGH SOCIAL INTERVENTION - Leslie Lenkowsky

Reducing Poverty

Will the New `Services Strategy' Do Better than the Old? - Edward Zigler and Sally J Styfco

Reshaping Early Childhood Intervention to Be a More Effective Weapon against Poverty

PART SEVEN: REDUCING POVERTY IN AMERICA - James H Johnson Jr

The Real Issues for Reducing Poverty - Ben Wattenberg

No More Something for Nothing - James Q Wilson

Cultural Aspects of Poverty