So Rich, So Poor
Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America
New York : New Press, 2012.
Format: Book
Related Information: http://books.google.com/books?isbn=9781595587855
Description: xix, 184 pages ; 22 cm
Offers an informed analysis of how the United States can be so wealthy yet have an outsized number of unemployed and working poor.
Contents:
A snapshot of our current mess -- What we have accomplished -- Why are we stuck? -- Jobs : the economy and public policy go south (for most of us) -- Deep poverty : a gigantic hole in the safety net -- Concentrated poverty : "the abandoned" -- Young people : improving the odds.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Poverty -- United States.
Poor -- Government policy -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Social policy -- 21st century.
2000-2099
Poverty -- United States.
Poor -- Government policy -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Social policy -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781595587855
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Poverty Ede | St. Andrews Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index.