Reducing Poverty in America

by Darby, Michael R.

• ISBN13: 9780761900061
• ISBN10: 0761900063
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-02-01
• Publisher: Sage Pubns

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

Poverty and the Underclass

Facing and Reducing Poverty

Poverty, Welfare Dependency, and the Underclass

Trends and Explanations Poverty and the Underclass

Some Latino Crosscurrents

Approaches to Reducing Poverty

Can We Replace Welfare with Work?

Reducing Poverty and Reducing the Underclass

Different Problems, Different Solutions A Dissent from the Incentive Approaches to Reducing Poverty

Improving Schooling for the Poor

Politics, Markets, and Equality in Schools

Mythical Choice and Real Standards

Two Strategies for Empowering People: Politics and Markets

Reweaving the Fabric

The Iron Rule and the IAF Strategy for Power and Politics New War on Poverty

The Kemp Program to Empower the Poor What We Can Learn from Grassroots Leaders

Job Training: from Welfare to Payrolls

Welfare and Poverty

Strategies to Increase Work Raising Work Levels among the Poor

Training, Work, and Poverty

Reducing Poverty Through Social Intervention

Reducing Poverty

Will the New `Services Strategy' Do Better than the Old? Reshaping Early Childhood Intervention to Be a More Effective Weapon against Poverty

Reducing Poverty in America

The Real Issues for Reducing Poverty

No More Something for Nothing

Cultural Aspects of Poverty

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