Child Poverty and Inequality (eBook, ePUB)

Securing a Better Future for America's Children
Redaktion: Lindsey, Duncan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Long a voice for combatting child poverty, Lindsey takes a balanced approach that begins with a history of economic and family policy from the Great Depression and the development of Social Security and moves onward. He details the shocking extent of economic inequality in the U.S., pointing out that this wealthiest of countries also has the largest proportion of children living in poverty. Calling for reform, Lindsey proposes several viable universal income security policies for vulnerable children and families, strategies that have worked in other advanced democracies and also respect the importance of the market economy. Politicians, pundits, and parents always say that children are the future, but as long as so many grow up poor or without opportunity, that slogan will sound hollow. Duncan Lindsey's book should be read by anyone who wants to know how we can take real action to brighten the future for children and for society as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190294120
• Artikelnr.: 42643655

Autorenporträt

Duncan Lindsey is a Professor at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. He is Editor-in-Chief of Children and Youth Services Review, the major research journal in child welfare, and he was the 2003 winner of the ProHumanitate Medal.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: The Color of Child Poverty
* 2: Wealth and Poverty among America's Children
* 3: From the Era of the Middle Class to the Era of the Wealthy Class
* 4: One Down, One to Go: Government Efforts to End Poverty among
Seniors and Children
* 5: The Failure of Welfare Reform for Poor Children
* 6: An End to Welfare and Maybe Even Child Poverty
* 7: Embracing Wealth: An Asset Building Approach to Ensuring
Opportunity for All Children
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