Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Making the work-based safety net work better / Carolyn Heinrich and John Karl Scholz
  • Alternative labor market policies to increase economic self-sufficiency :
  • Mandating higher wages, subsidizing employment, and raising productivity / David Neumark
  • On work and health among the american poor / Jayanta Bhattacharya and Peter Richmond
  • Parental pathways to self-sufficiency and the well-being of younger children / Greg J. Duncan, Lisa Gennetian, and Pamela Morris
  • School reforms and improved life outcomes for disadvantaged children / David N. Figlio
  • The impact of incarceration on the employment outcomes of former inmates : policy options for fostering self-sufficiency and an assessment of the cost-effectiveness of current corrections policy / Steven Raphael
  • The growing problem of disconnected single mothers / Rebecca Blank and Brian Kovak
  • Beyond the safety net : supporting the economic security of working poor families / Marcia K. Meyers and Janet C. Gornick
  • The politics of low-income families in the United States / R. Kent Weaver.