Confronting Poverty

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'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.
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'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.
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This is a very balanced and informative study that provides an historical perspective on what has happened to poverty in the United States since its eradication first became a goal of public policy.
— William J. Hutchison

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Presents revised papers on the nature, causes, and consequences of poverty in the US, from a May 1992 conference jointly sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty and the US Department of Health and Human Services. Contributors document trends over the past 30 years in poverty and income inequality, review government programs and policies, and discuss welfare dependence and the urban underclass. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Sheldon Danziger is Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Gary Sandefur is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Daniel H. Weinberg is an economist with the Office of Income Security Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Table of Contents

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