Title: Are We Asking the Right Questions about Poverty in America?
Abstract:The US poverty rate is persistently higher than poverty rates of comparably wealthy European countries. This essay reviews three books about why poverty is so high and what we have done about it: Pove...The US poverty rate is persistently higher than poverty rates of comparably wealthy European countries. This essay reviews three books about why poverty is so high and what we have done about it: Poverty in America: A Handbook (third edition), by John Iceland; Legacies of the War on Poverty, edited by Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger; and The Undeserving Poor: America’s Enduring Confrontation with Poverty, Fully Updated and Revised (second edition), by Michael B. Katz. It concludes that scholarship is advancing but still fails to provide a compelling narrative about the reasons poverty persists or historically informed insights for reforming antipoverty policy.Read More
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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