Contributor
Roush, Margaret.
Imprint:New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 2009.
Descriptionix, 185 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Note:The Other America / Jonathan Alter -- The Changing face of poverty in America / William E. Spriggs -- Poverty Row / Jeffrey M. Jones -- Poverty is back! / Ezra Klein -- We don't need another war on poverty / Stephen Malanga -- How welfare reform worked / Kay S. Hymowitz -- Using carrots and sticks / Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill -- Is welfare working? / Jonathan Walters -- Unfinished business / Thomas Massaro -- Welfare aid isn't growing as economy drops off / Jason DeParle -- Reforming Medicaid / John C. Goodman, Devon M. Herrick -- Something of value / Gary Enos -- SCHIP and beyond / Jonathan Walters -- An Immoral philosophy / Paul Krugman -- Sleepwalking toward DD-Day / George F. Will -- Boost for SCHIP / Jennifer Lubell -- Hungry in America / Trudy Lieberman -- Reflections on the Food Stamp Program / Bonny O'Neil -- Food stamps and obesity / Michele Ver Ploeg, Katherine Ralston -- Food stamps -- Hunger hysteria / Robert Rector -- 2008 Farm Act makes it easier for food assistance households to save / Margaret Andrews -- Improving food choices : can food stamps do more? / Joanne F. Guthrie, et al. -- Balancing nutrition, participation, and cost in the National School Lunch Program / Constance Newman, Katherine Ralston, Annette Clauson -- Are shelters the answer to family homelessness? / Ralph da Costa Nunez, Laura M. Caruso -- As program moves poor to suburbs, tensions follow / Solomon Moore -- Disability cases last longer as backlog rises / Erik Eckholm -- Embracing the exiles -- Starting right / Joan Lombardi -- For Head Start, a marathon run / Linda Jacobson, Daniel Sheehan.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-174) and index.
