It Takes a Nation : A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty - Updated Edition /

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As Americans experiment with dismantling the nation's welfare system, clichés and slogans proliferate, ranging from charges that the poor are simply lazy to claims that existing antipoverty programs have failed completely. In this impeccably researched book, Rebecca Blank provides the definitiv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Blank, Rebecca M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Poverty > Government policy > United States.
Public welfare > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1: The Changing Face of Poverty
  • CHAPTER 2: A Changing Economy
  • CHAPTER 3: Changing Policy: America's Efforts to Provide a Social Safety Net
  • CHAPTER 4: What Do Antipoverty Programs Do?
  • CHAPTER 5: Who Should Help the Poor?
  • CHAPTER 6: The Movement toward Targeted Programs
  • CHAPTER 7: Where Should We Go from Here?
  • CHAPTER 8: Conclusions
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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