Reducing poverty in America : views and approaches /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Darby, Michael R., 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, [Calif.] : Sage Publications, [1996]
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Table of Contents:
  • Facing and reducing poverty / Michael R. Darby
  • Poverty, welfare dependency, and the underclass : trends and explanations / Douglas J. Besharov
  • Poverty and the underclass : some Latino crosscurrents/ David Hayes-Bautista
  • Can we replace welfare with work? / Christopher Jencks
  • Reducing poverty and reducing the underclass : different problems, different solutions / Charles Murray
  • A dissent from the incentive approaches to reducing poverty / Glenn C. Loury
  • Politics, markets, and equality in schools / John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe
  • Mythical choice and real standards / Albert Shanker
  • Reweaving the fabric : the iron rule and IAF strategy for power and politics / Ernesto Cortés, Jr
  • A new war on poverty : the Kemp program to empower the poor / John C. Weicher
  • What we can learn from grassroots leaders / Robert L. Woodson, Sr.
  • Welfare and poverty : strategies to increase work / Judith M. Gueron
  • Raising work levels among the poor / Lawrence M. Mead
  • Training, work, and poverty / Margaret C. Simms
  • Reducing poverty : will the new "services strategy" do better than the old? / Leslie Lenkowsky
  • Reshaping early childhood intervention to be a more effective weapon against poverty / Edward Zigler and Sally J. Styfco
  • The real issues for reducing poverty / James H. Johnson, Jr.
  • No more something for nothing / Ben Wattenberg
  • Cultural aspects of poverty / James Q. Wilson.