Understanding poverty /
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. Understanding Poverty brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusin...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York : Cambridge, Mass. :
Russell Sage Foundation ; Harvard University Press,
©2001
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| Series: | Russell Sage Foundation Ser
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| Summary: | In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. Understanding Poverty brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the twenty-first century |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 566 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-552) and index |
| ISBN: | 0674007670 0674030176 9780674007673 9780674030176 |