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Online-Ressource (819 p)
ISBN:
9780300095418
Series Statement:
The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969 -- Part I. Economic Inequality and Income Inequality -- 1. From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality -- 2. Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: A Cross-National Perspective -- Part II. Issues in Measurement of Inequality and Poverty -- 3. Measuring Poverty: Issues and Approaches 99 -- 4. Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty -- Part III. Structural Causes of African American Poverty -- 5. The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States -- 6. The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America -- 7. The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring -- Part IV. Critical Factors Militating Against Black Progress: Retrospect and Prospect -- 8. The Demise of a Dinosaur: Analyzing School and Housing Desegregation in Yonkers -- 9. Suburban Exclusion and the Courts: Can a Class-Based Remedy Reduce Urban Segregation? -- 10. Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s -- 11. Poverty, Racism, and Migration: The Health of the African American Population -- 12. The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty -- Part V. The Differential Impact of Skills on Earnings -- 13. U.S. Education and Training Policy: A Reevaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the ''New Consensus'' -- 14. The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination -- 15. Escalating Differences and Elusive ''Skills'': Cognitive Abilities and the Explanation of Inequality -- 16. Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty -- Part VI. Racial and Familial Hardship: Welfare Benefits and Welfare Reform -- 17. Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility: An Alternative View.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Editor�s Preface""; ""Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969""; ""Part I. Economic Inequality and Income Inequality""; ""1. From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality""; ""2. Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: A Cross-National Perspective""; ""Part II. Issues in Measurement of Inequality and Poverty""; ""3. Measuring Poverty: Issues and Approaches 99""; ""4. Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty""; ""Part III. Structural Causes of African American Poverty""
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""5. The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States""""6. The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America""; ""7. The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring""; ""Part IV. Critical Factors Militating Against Black Progress: Retrospect and Prospect""; ""8. The Demise of a Dinosaur: Analyzing School and Housing Desegregation in Yonkers""; ""9. Suburban Exclusion and the Courts: Can a Class-Based Remedy Reduce Urban Segregation?""; ""10. Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s""
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""11. Poverty, Racism, and Migration: The Health of the African American Population""""12. The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty""; ""Part V. The Differential Impact of Skills on Earnings""; ""13. U.S. Education and Training Policy: A Reevaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the ��New Consensus��""; ""14. The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination""; ""15. Escalating Differences and Elusive ��Skills��: Cognitive Abilities and the Explanation of Inequality""
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""16. Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty""""Part VI. Racial and Familial Hardship: Welfare Benefits and Welfare Reform""; ""17. Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility: An Alternative View""; ""18. Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It?""; ""19. Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States""; ""20. How Much More Can They Work? Setting Realistic Expectations for Welfare Mothers""; ""21. Turning Our Backs on the New Deal: The End of Welfare in 1996""
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""22. Fighting Poverty: Lessons from Recent U.S. History""""Part VII. Communal Hardship in Black Residential Areas: Crime and Law Enforcement""; ""23. Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship""; ""24. Violence and the Inner-City Street Code""; ""Part VIII. Economic Development of Black Communities""; ""25. Minority Business Development Programs: Failure by Design""; ""26. A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven: An Alternative Framework for Development""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""
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ISBN 9780300129847
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300095418
Additional Edition:
Print version Race, Poverty, and Domestic Policy
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