Author: Herbert KrosneyPublisher: Henry Holt
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Beyond Welfare; Poverty in the Supercity
Author: Herbert KrosneyPublisher: Henry Holt
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Def-measuremnt Poverty-2
Author: Sharon M. OsterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429706596
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Are the poor, as one writer suggests, only those without enough to eat? Or does poverty instead consist of "the inability to buy a beer when everyone else has one"? These two volumes provide a comprehensive summary and annotated bibliography of the issues associated with the definition and measurement of poverty. The discussion is organized around eleven topics in the areas of economics, political science, and sociology. Included are such diverse subjects as the historical evolution of poverty definitions (How did Karl Marx and Adam Smith define poverty?); the "index number" problem; and regional differences in poverty measurement. The annotated bibliography, including both articles and books, primarily covers material written after 1950.
The Measure of Poverty
Author: Urban Systems Research & EngineeringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poverty
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Launching the War on Poverty
Author: Michael L. GillettePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199779864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely forgotten. Conceived amid the daring idealism of the 1960s, these programs originated as weapons in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, an offensive spearheaded by a controversial new government agency. Within months, the Office of Economic Opportunity created an array of unconventional initiatives that empowered the poor, challenged the established order, and ultimately transformed the nation's attitudes toward poverty. In Launching the War on Poverty, historian Michael L. Gillette weaves together oral history interviews with the architects of the Great Society's boldest experiment. Forty-nine former poverty warriors, including Sargent Shriver, Adam Yarmolinsky, and Lawrence F. O'Brien, recount this inside story of unprecedented governmental innovation. The interviews capture the excitement and heady optimism of Americans in the 1960s along with their conflicts and disillusionment. This new edition of Launching the War on Poverty adds the voice of Lyndon Johnson to the story with excerpts from his recently-released White House telephone conversations. In these colorful and brutally candid conversations, LBJ exercises his full arsenal of presidential powers, political leverage, and legendary persuasiveness to win one of his most difficult legislative battles. The second edition also documents how the OEO's offspring survived their volatile origins to become broadly supported features of domestic policy.
The Measure of Poverty: A review of the definition and measurement of poverty, pt. 1. Summary review paper, pt. 2. Annotated bibliography
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
The Measure of Poverty
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Def-measuremnt Poverty-2/h
Author: Sharon M. OsterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429726600
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Are the poor, as one writer suggests, only those without enough to eat? Or does poverty instead consist of "the inability to buy a beer when everyone else has one"? These two volumes provide a comprehensive summary and annotated bibliography of the issues associated with the definition and measurement of poverty. The discussion is organized around eleven topics in the areas of economics, political science, and sociology. Included are such diverse subjects as the historical evolution of poverty definitions (How did Karl Marx and Adam Smith define poverty?); the "index number" problem; and regional differences in poverty measurement. The annotated bibliography, including both articles and books, primarily covers material written after 1950.
Public Health Service Publication
Author: Bibliography on the Urban Crisis
Author: Jon K. MeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City dwellers
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Poverty Studies in the Sixties
Author: United States. Social Security Administration. Office of Research and StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Over 550 references to reports, government documents, books, legislation, and journal articles published between 1960-1969. Entries arranged alphabetically by authors under topics. Author index.