Differences That Matter : : Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada /

Differences That Matter : : Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada / / Dan Zuberi.

This book shines a spotlight on the causes and consequences of working poverty, revealing how the lives of low-wage workers are affected by differences in health care, labor, and social welfare policy in the United States and Canada. Dan Zuberi's conclusions are based on survey data, eighteen m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Zuberi, Dan,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 halftones, 12 tables, 5 charts/graphs, 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction
  • CHAPTER 2. Poverty and Policy in the United States and Canada
  • CHAPTER 3. The Story and the Setting
  • CHAPTER 4. The Union Difference
  • CHAPTER 5. Health -Care Differences
  • CHAPTER 6. Social Welfare Policy Differences
  • CHAPTER 7. Public Investment and City-Level Differences
  • CHAPTER 8. Subjective Perceptions and Future Outlook
  • CHAPTER 9. Improving the Lives of the Working Poor
  • CHAPTER 10. Conclusion
  • APPENDIX
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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