Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger
  • part 1. Economic changes, demographic changes, and trends in poverty. Poverty levels and trends in comparative perspective / Daniel R. Meyer and Geoffrey L. Wallace
  • Economic change and the structure of opportunity for less-skilled workers / Rebecca M. Blank
  • Family structure, childbearing, and parental employment : implications for the level and trend in poverty / Maria Cancian and Deborah Reed
  • Immigration and poverty in the United States / Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky
  • part 2. Mobility and its consequences. Enduring influences of childhood poverty / Katherine Magnuson and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal
  • Mobility in the United States in comparative perspective / Markus Jantti
  • part 3. The evolution and scope of antipoverty policies. Trends in income support / John Karl Scholz, Robert Moffitt, and Benjamin Cowan
  • The role of family policies in antipoverty policy / Jane Waldfogel
  • Improving educational outcomes for poor children / Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig
  • Workforce development as an antipoverty strategy : what do we know? what should we do? / Harry J. Holzer
  • Health care for the poor : for whom, what care, and whose responsibility? / Katherine Swartz
  • part 4. The politics of poverty and its meaning in a rich country. Poverty politics and policy / Mary Jo Bane
  • What does it mean to be poor in a rich society? / Robert Haveman.