Fighting poverty: what works and what doesn'tEssays examine antipoverty policies of the last twenty years and discuss welfare, health care for the poor, job training, education programs, family structure, and civil rights |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Trends Prospects and Economic | 18 |
Is Welfare the Answer or the Problem? | 78 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Fighting poverty: what works and what doesn't |
| Authors | Sheldon Danziger, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Institute for Research on Poverty |
| Editors | Sheldon Danziger, Daniel H. Weinberg |
| Edition | 4, reprint, illustrated |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0674300866, 9780674300866 |
| Length | 418 pages |
| Subjects | › Political Science / General Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness |
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