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Although poverty is one of the most serious issues facing the world's population, finding statistical information on this subject has, in the past, required a significant amount of time and effort.

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Struggling in the Land of Plenty examines how gendered and racialized poverty, social structural inequality, intimate partner violence, and welfare reform have contributed to the rise in family homelessness, exposing the devastating consequences for women and their children.

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As Jeff Singleton shows, the rapid expansion of unemployment relief in the early 1930s generated pressures which led to the first federal welfare programs.

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Investigates the attitudes various groups have held toward the Residential Lead-based Paint Hazard Reduction Act. In doing so, the author reveals much about the attitudes officials hold toward problems that primarily affect poor communities, and demonstrates how these attitudes directly affect policymaking and policy enforcement.

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This study looks at the tendency of women and their families to become the majority of the poor and asks whether this phenomenon is unique to America. Seven industrialised nations, both capitalist and socialist, with different degrees of commitment to social welfare, are compared.

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This study looks at the tendency of women and their families to become the majority of the poor and asks whether this phenomenon is unique to America. Seven industrialised nations, both capitalist and socialist, with different degrees of commitment to social welfare, are compared.

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A controversial look at how the failure of most of the poor to work at all has transformed American politics, by a New York University political scientist who is a leading advocate of workfare programs.

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The plight of the poorest around the world has been pushed to the forefront of America's international agenda for the first time in many years by the war on terrorism and the formidable challenges presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

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A review of poverty in the United States, summarising conservative views and providing evidence to defeat their arguments. The author aims to demonstrate that widespread poverty is not caused by lack of ambition, and probes both the political dimension and the role of government.

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A review of poverty in the United States, summarising conservative views and providing evidence to defeat their arguments. The author aims to demonstrate that widespread poverty is not caused by lack of ambition, and probes both the political dimension and the role of government.

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"In his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term "underclass" to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herbert J. Gans shows how this ubiquitous label has relegated a wide variety of pe"

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Extreme poverty exhausts institutions, depletes resources, weakens leadership, and ultimately contributes to rising insecurity and conflict. Just as poverty begets insecurity, however, the reverse is also true.

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Cheap, plentiful food is an American tradition. We spend a smaller percentage of our income on food than any other nation. We feed much of the world with our surpluses.

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This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature on poverty in urban America.

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This book is designed to help readers navigate through the vast and rapidly growing literature on poverty in urban America.

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Brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we really know about what works and what doesn't in fighting global poverty The contributors, including many of the world's most respected economic development analysts, focus on the ongoing debate over which paths to development truly maximize results.

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A prize-winning investigative expose of the poverty and injustice experienced by China's 900 million peasants, told through a series of dramatic personal narratives.

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Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United Statesthe most affluent country in the worldthis book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.

American history is replete with efforts to alleviate poverty.