Poverty by America

• Author : Matthew Desmond
• Publisher : Crown
• Release : 21 March 2023

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. “Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”—The New Yorker ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: The Washington Post, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Elle, Salon, Lit Hub, Kirkus Reviews The United States, the richest country on earth,

• Author : John Iceland
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 01 October 2003

"This volume is an excellent overview of the dimensions and sources of American poverty. John Iceland combines statistical data, theoretical arguments, and historical information in a book that is highly readable and will very likely become a standard reference for students of poverty."—William Julius Wilson, author of When Work Disappears "In just a few short pages, Iceland brings anyone--lay reader, student, professional researcher--up to speed on the major issues and debates about poverty in America. With succinct and engaging

• Author : Tamara Thompson
• Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
• Release : 27 April 2015

An estimated 43.1 million Americans live in poverty. While the government strives to have resources for citizens troubled by poverty, many Americans feel there is not enough being done. This edition explores issues related to poverty in America. Article topics include whether or not poverty is a growing problem in the United Sates, its causes, and ways to reduce poverty for Americans.

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 June 2023

• Author : Patrick Shannon
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 14 March 2014

In this book Shannon’s major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty: Poverty has everything to do with American public schooling–how it is theorized, how it is organized, and how it runs. Competing ideological representations of poverty underlie school assumptions about intelligence, character, textbook content, lesson formats, national standards, standardized achievement tests, and business/school partnerships and frame our considerations of each. In this new edition, Shannon provides an update of the ideological struggles to name and

• Author : Elizabeth Kneebone,Alan Berube
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 20 May 2013

It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Back in the 1960s tackling poverty "in place" meant focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were seen as home to middle- and upper-class families—affluent commuters and homeowners looking for good schools and safe communities in which to raise their kids. But today's America is a very different place. Poverty is no longer just an urban or rural problem,

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 June 2023

• Author : Amy Glasmeier
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 27 January 2014

Persistant poverty has long been one of America's most pressing and intractable problems. According to some estimates, by 2003, almost twenty-five percent of the America's countries had per-capita incomes below one half the national average, high unemployment, low labour force participation rates, and a high dependency on government transfer payments - all measures of economic distress. An Atlas of Poverty in America shows how and where America's regional development patterns have become more uneven, and graphically illustrates the increasing number of

• Author : Sasha Abramsky
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 10 September 2013

Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor -- the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political

• Author : James T. Patterson
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 29 September 2000

This new edition of Patterson's widely used book carries the story of battles over poverty and social welfare through what the author calls the "amazing 1990s," those years of extraordinary performance of the economy. He explores a range of issues arising from the economic phenomenon--increasing inequality and demands for use of an improved poverty definition. He focuses the story on the impact of the highly controversial welfare reform of 1996, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a Democratic President

• Author : John Iceland
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 06 February 2006

Praise for the first edition: “Highly readable. Will very likely become a standard reference for students of poverty.”—William Julius Wilson, author of When Work Disappears “With succinct and engaging prose, Poverty in America covers the gamut —from theoretical issues to measurement to history to public policy—better than any other book out there right now.”—Dalton Conley, author of Honky

• Author : Woody Klein
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release : 01 January 2013

Analyzes efforts to eliminate poverty during each U.S. president's administration from George Washington to Barack Obama, looking at why no president has been able to end poverty and challenges each has faced in his quest to do so.

• Author : Catherine Reef
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release : 03 June 2023

Presents an overview of the history of poverty in America and includes excerpts from primary source documents, short biographies of influential people, and more.

• Author : Sidney Lens
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1969

• Author : Rural Sociological Society
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 28 May 2019

A team of anthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, social workers, and sociologists examine the leading explanations for why poverty persists in rural America. Their findings discredit established theories such as the culture of poverty and suggest new explanations for rural poverty and new directions for antipoverty programs