Fighting poverty : what works and what doesn't / edited by Sheldon H. Danziger and Daniel H. Weinberg.

Contributor Danziger, Sheldon.

Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.

Descriptionviii, 418 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:Revised versions of papers presented at a conference held in Williamsburg, Va., in Dec. 1984, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin--Madison's Institute for Research on Poverty and the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Note:Includes index.

Note:Publis spending for the poor: trends, prospects, and economic limits / Gary Burtless. - Antipoverty policy: effects on the poor and the nonpoor / Sheldon H. Danziger, Robert H. Haveman, and Robert D, Plotnick. - Poverty in America: is welfare the answer or the problem? / David T. Ellwood and Lawrence H. Summers. - Health care for the porr: the past twenty years / Paul Starr. - The effect of direct job creation and training programs on low-skilled workers / Laurie J. Bassi and Orley Ashenfelter. - Education and training programs and poverty / Nathan Glazer; comment by Christopher Jencks. - Macroeconomics, income distribution, and poverty / Rebecca M. Blank and Alan S. Blinder. - Household composition and poverty / Mary Jo Bane. - Poverty and family structure: the widening gap between evidence and public policy issues / William Julius Wilson and Kathryn M. Neckerman. - Legal rights and welfare change, 1960-1980 / Michael R. Sosin; comment by Lawrence M. Mead. - Social policies, civil rights, and poverty / Charles V. Hamilton and Dona C. Hamilton. - The political foundations of antipoverty policy / Hugh Heclo. - The main themes / Edward M. Gramlich. - A poverty research agenda for the next decade / Daniel H. Weinberg.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. [359]-387.

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