Poverty and the Underclass : : Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America / / ed. by William A. Kelso.
The much-heralded War on Poverty has failed. The number of children living in poverty is steadily on the rise and an increasingly destructive underclass brutalizes urban neighborhoods. America's patience with the poor seems to have run out: even cities that have traditionally been havens for th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1994] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART ONE The Poverty Debate
- ONE Doesn't Anything Work? Is a War against Poverty Really Feasible?
- TWO Poverty: How Serious Is the Problem?
- THREE What Is Causing the Problem? An Overview
- PART TWO Explaining Poverty: Individual Explanations
- FOUR The Lack of Human Capital
- FIVE The Lack of Entrepreneurial Skills
- SIX The Growing Instability of the Family
- PART THREE Explaining Poverty: Motivational Explanations Accounting for the Growth of the Underclass
- SEVEN Rational Economic Explanations: The Liberal Version
- EIGHT Rational Economic Explanations: The Conservative Version
- NINE Cultural Explanations
- PART FOUR Explaining Poverty: Structural Explanations
- TEN The Barrier of Racial Discrimination
- ELEVEN The Economy 1: The Lack of Jobs
- TWELVE The Economy II: The Lack of High-Paying Jobs
- THIRTEEN The Economy Ill: Stagnating Productivity and the Lack of High-Paying Jobs
- FOURTEEN The View from the Left: Economic Exploitation and the Lack of Political Power
- PART FIVE The Changing Views of Poverty in America
- FIFTEEN Changing Perceptions of the Causes of Poverty: A Summary
- SIXTEEN Maybe Something Will Work after All: The Fight against Poverty Revisited
- Appendix: The Controversy over the Government's Definition of Poverty
- Notes
- Index