Rediscovering the Other America : The Continuing Crisis of Poverty and Inequality in the United States

ISBN-13: 9780789020963 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 220 str.

Keith M. Kilty

Opis

Ten articles, also published as the Journal of Poverty, vol. 7, nos. 1/2 (2003), consider such issues as health care for the poor in the US, political promises for welfare reform, gender differences in the economic well-being of non-aged adults, Central Appalachia, lessons from Appalachian Kentucky, and driving out of poverty in private automobile

Spis treści

• Rediscovering the Other America: The Continuing Crisis of Poverty and Inequality in the United States: Introduction
• Fixing that Great Hodgepodge: Health Care for the Poor in the U. S.
• Staying Poor in the Clinton Boom: Welfare Reform and the Nearby Labor Force
• Political Promises for Welfare Reform
• The “Other America” After Welfare Reform: A View from the Nonprofit Sector
• Gender Differences in the Economic Well-Being of Non-Aged Adults in the United States
• Central Appalachia-Still the Other America
• Welfare Policy, Welfare Participants, and CalWORKS Caseworkers: How Participants Are Informed of Supportive Services
• Making Experience Count in Policy Creation: Lessons from Appalachian Kentucky
• THOUGHTS ON POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
• Driving Out of Poverty in Private Automobiles
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Keith Kilty, Elizabeth Segal