Contributor
Danziger, Sheldon.
Imprint:New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.
Descriptionviii, 529 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:"The chapters in this volume were initially presented at a conference held in May 1992 in Madison, Wisconsin, jointly sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"--Pref.
Note:The historical record: trends in family income, inequality, and poverty / Sheldon H. Danziger and Daniel H. Weinberg. - Public spending on the poor: historical trends and economic limits / Gary Burtless. - The dynamics and intergenerational transmission of poverty and welfare participation / Peter Gottschalk, Sara McLanahan, and Gary D. Sandefur. - The underclass: concept, controversy, and evidence / Ronald B. Mincy. - Poverty in relation to macroeconomic trends, cycles, and policies / James Tobin. - The employment strategy: public policies to increase work and earnings / Rebecca M. Blank. - Single-mother families, economic insecurity, and government policy / Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan. - Updating urban policy / Jeffrey S. Lehman. - Reform of health care for the nonelderly poor / Barbara L. Wolfe. - Education and the well-being of the next generation / Richard J. Murnane. - Systemic educatonal reform and social mobility: the school Choice controversy / Charles F. Manski. - Poverty and immigration in policy perspective / Marta Tienda and Zai Liang. - Antipoverty policy, affirmative action, and racial attitudes / Lawrence Bobo and Ryan A. Smith. - Poverty politics / High Heclo. - The nature, causes, and cures of poverty: accomplishments from three decades of poverty research and policy / Robert Haveman.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-517) and index.
