This challenging volume reflects the breadth of the debate over the existence of poverty in the United States and what can be done to eradicate it. With contributions from 21 distinguished social scientists and policy analysts, the book represents the diversity of ideas on how to effectively reduce the social ills of poverty, welfare dependency and the `underclass'. Four areas of focus in anti-poverty efforts are examined in depth: education, community empowerment, job training and social intervention.
This challenging volume reflects the breadth of the debate over the existence of poverty in the United States and what can be done to eradicate it. With contributions from 21 distinguished social scientists and policy analysts, the book represents the diversity of ideas on how to effectively reduce the social ills of poverty, welfare dependency and the `underclass'. Four areas of focus in anti-poverty efforts are examined in depth: education, community empowerment, job training and social intervention.
PART ONE: POVERTY AND THE UNDERCLASS Facing and Reducing Poverty - Michael R Darby Poverty, Welfare Dependency, and the Underclass - Douglas J Besharov Trends and Explanations Poverty and the Underclass - David Hayes-Bautista Some Latino Crosscurrents PART TWO: APPROACHES TO REDUCING POVERTY Can We Replace Welfare with Work? - Christopher Jencks Reducing Poverty and Reducing the Underclass - Charles Murray Different Problems, Different Solutions A Dissent from the Incentive Approaches to Reducing Poverty - Glenn C Loury PART THREE: IMPROVING SCHOOLING FOR THE POOR Politics, Markets, and Equality in Schools - John E Chubb and Terry M Moe Mythical Choice and Real Standards - Albert Shanker PART FOUR: TWO STRATEGIES FOR EMPOWERING PEOPLE: POLITICS AND MARKETS Reweaving the Fabric - Ernesto J Cortés Jr The Iron Rule and the IAF Strategy for Power and Politics New War on Poverty - John C Weicher The Kemp Program to Empower the Poor What We Can Learn from Grassroots Leaders - Robert L Woodson Sr PART FIVE: JOB TRAINING: FROM WELFARE TO PAYROLLS Welfare and Poverty - Judith M Gueron Strategies to Increase Work Raising Work Levels among the Poor - Lawrence M Mead Training, Work, and Poverty - Margaret C Simms PART SIX: REDUCING POVERTY THROUGH SOCIAL INTERVENTION Reducing Poverty - Leslie Lenkowsky Will the New `Services Strategy¿ Do Better than the Old? Reshaping Early Childhood Intervention to Be a More Effective Weapon against Poverty - Edward Zigler and Sally J Styfco PART SEVEN: REDUCING POVERTY IN AMERICA The Real Issues for Reducing Poverty - James H Johnson Jr No More Something for Nothing - Ben Wattenberg Cultural Aspects of Poverty - James Q Wilson
PART ONE: POVERTY AND THE UNDERCLASS Facing and Reducing Poverty - Michael R Darby Poverty, Welfare Dependency, and the Underclass - Douglas J Besharov Trends and Explanations Poverty and the Underclass - David Hayes-Bautista Some Latino Crosscurrents PART TWO: APPROACHES TO REDUCING POVERTY Can We Replace Welfare with Work? - Christopher Jencks Reducing Poverty and Reducing the Underclass - Charles Murray Different Problems, Different Solutions A Dissent from the Incentive Approaches to Reducing Poverty - Glenn C Loury PART THREE: IMPROVING SCHOOLING FOR THE POOR Politics, Markets, and Equality in Schools - John E Chubb and Terry M Moe Mythical Choice and Real Standards - Albert Shanker PART FOUR: TWO STRATEGIES FOR EMPOWERING PEOPLE: POLITICS AND MARKETS Reweaving the Fabric - Ernesto J Cortés Jr The Iron Rule and the IAF Strategy for Power and Politics New War on Poverty - John C Weicher The Kemp Program to Empower the Poor What We Can Learn from Grassroots Leaders - Robert L Woodson Sr PART FIVE: JOB TRAINING: FROM WELFARE TO PAYROLLS Welfare and Poverty - Judith M Gueron Strategies to Increase Work Raising Work Levels among the Poor - Lawrence M Mead Training, Work, and Poverty - Margaret C Simms PART SIX: REDUCING POVERTY THROUGH SOCIAL INTERVENTION Reducing Poverty - Leslie Lenkowsky Will the New `Services Strategy¿ Do Better than the Old? Reshaping Early Childhood Intervention to Be a More Effective Weapon against Poverty - Edward Zigler and Sally J Styfco PART SEVEN: REDUCING POVERTY IN AMERICA The Real Issues for Reducing Poverty - James H Johnson Jr No More Something for Nothing - Ben Wattenberg Cultural Aspects of Poverty - James Q Wilson
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