Moving to opportunity : the story of an American experiment to fight ghetto poverty /
If "bad" neighborhoods are truly bad for children and families, especially the minority poor, can moving to better neighborhoods lead them to better lives? Might these families escape poverty altogether, beyond having a better quality of life to help them cope with being poor? Federal poli...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | If "bad" neighborhoods are truly bad for children and families, especially the minority poor, can moving to better neighborhoods lead them to better lives? Might these families escape poverty altogether, beyond having a better quality of life to help them cope with being poor? Federal policymakers and planners thought so, on both counts, and in 1994, they launched Moving to Opportunity. The 80 million social experiment enrolled nearly 5,000 very low-income, mostly black and Hispanic families, many of them on welfare, who were living in public housing in the inner-city neighborhoods. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 305 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780199741861 0199741867 0195393716 9780195393712 0195392841 9780195392845 |