Understanding poverty /
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New York : Cambridge, Mass. :
Russell Sage Foundation ; Harvard University Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The evolution of poverty and antipoverty policy / Sheldon H. Danziger, Robert H. Haveman
- The level, trend, and composition of poverty / Gary Burtless, Timothy M. Smeeding
- Changes in family structure: implications for poverty and related policy / Maria Cancian, Deborah Reed
- The rising tide lifts ...? / Richard B. Freeman
- Mobility, persistence, and the consequences of poverty for children: child and adult outcomes / Mary Corcoran
- U.S. poverty in a cross-national context / Timothy M. Smeeding, Lee Rainwater, Gary Burtless
- The evolution of income support policy in recent decades / John Karl Scholz, Kara Levine
- Welfare policy in transition: redefining the social contract for poor citizen families with children and for immigrants / Ladonna A. Pavetti
- Health policies for the non-elderly poor / John Mullahy, Barbara L. Wolfe
- Investing in the future: reducing poverty through human capital investments / Lynn A. Karoly
- Housing discrimination and residential segregation as causes of poverty / John Yinger
- The memberships theory of poverty: the role of group affiliations in determining socioeconomic outcomes / Steven N. Durlauf
- Community revitalization, jobs and the well-being of the inner-city poor / Ronald F. Ferguson
- Politics, race, and poverty research / Glenn C. Loury
- Poverty research and antipoverty policy after the technological revolution / David R. Harris
- Research on poverty and antipoverty policies / Jane Waldfogel.