A Decade of Federal antipoverty programs : achievements, failures, and lessons /

Compilation of conference papers reviewing a decade (1964 to 1974) of social policy developments and antipoverty programmes in the USA - provides an overview of social service, health service and guaranteed income provision for low income populations. References and statistical tables. Conference he...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: ScienceDirect (Online service), University of Wisconsin--Madison. Institute for Research on Poverty
Other Authors: Haveman, Robert H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Academic Press, ©1977.
Series:Poverty policy analysis series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : poverty and social policy in the 1960s and 1970s- an overview and some speculations / Robert H. Haveman
  • The social and political context of the war on poverty : an overview / Lawrence M. Friedman
  • A decade of policy developments in the income-maintenance system / Laurence E. Lynn
  • A decade of policy developments in improving education and training for low-income populations / Henry M. Levin
  • A decade of policy developments in providing health care for low-income families / Karen Davis
  • Racial change and citizen participation : the mobilization of low-income communities through community action / Paul E. Peterson and J. David Greenstone
  • Ten years of legal services for the poor / Ellen Jane Hollingsowrth
  • A decade of policy developments in equal opportunities in employment and housing / Phyllis A. Wallace.