The War on Poverty (eBook, ePUB)

A Retrospective
Redaktion: Farmbry, Kyle

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In January of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty." Over the next several years, the United States launched several programs aimed at drastically reducing the level of poverty throughout the nation. Now fifty years later, we have a number of lessons related to what has and has not worked in the fight against poverty. This book is a collection of chapters by both researchers and practitioners studying and addressing matters of poverty as they intersect with a number of broader social challenges such as health care, education, and criminal justice issues. The War on Poverty: A Retrospective serves as a collection of many of their observations, thoughts, and findings. Ultimately, the authors reflect on some of the lessons of the past fifty years and ask basic questions about poverty and its continued impact on American society, as well as how we might continue to address the challenges that poverty presents for our nation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739190791
• Artikelnr.: 41460297

Autorenporträt

Edited by Kyle Farmbry

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface
Kyle Farmbry Introduction: The War on Poverty - Some Initial Thoughts
Kyle Farmbry Poverty Policy Link: Three Examples
Sebawit G. Bishu and Mohamad Alkadry Women and Children in Poverty: How Low Income Female Headed Families Have Fared Since the War on Poverty
Regina Malveaux and Rachel Dolezal Immigration and Poverty
Portia Diñoso Campos "The Movement's Broadway": Race
Poverty
Education
and Healthcare in the State of Mississippi
Jennifer A. Stollman and Susan M. Glisson Poverty in Appalachia
Joanna Maulbeck War as Metaphor: The Convergence of the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs
Keesha Middlemass Poverty and Juvenile Justice: Exploring the Intersections
Identifying the Solutions
Al Passarella Home Sweet Home: Race
Housing
and the Foreclosure Crisis
Rosie Uyola Not in My Backyard: An Examination of Suburban Gentrification as Tool for Combating Poverty
Portia Allen-Kyle Poverty and Health Care
Venessa Perry The Educational Achievement Gap and Poverty: Lessons of ESEA and Head Start
Franklin Dickerson Turner Workforce Development in an Era of Diminishing Work
Michael Vorgetts Worker Cooperatives as Models for Economic Engagement
Daphne Berry Inclusive Capitalism and Poverty Alleviation
David Madland
Karla Walters
Alex Ingrams Conclusion
Kyle Farmbry About the Editor About the Contributors Bibliography Index