Poverty in America: A Book of ReadingsLouis A. Ferman, Joyce L. Kornbluh University of Michigan Press, 1968 - 669 pagina's Each section of this work contains 7 or more articles on the topic and includes a separate introduction & bibliography. The authors are authorities in their fields, & they address the problems of poverty in the U.S. against the backdrop of the 1960's War on Poverty & President Johnson's Great Society. |
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Chapter | 1 |
Chapter | 7 |
Another Look at the Poverty Profile | 67 |
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agencies Agriculture American automation average behavior benefits budget Bureau bureaucracies Census cent characteristics child cost culture of poverty defer gratification dependent earnings economic employed estimates fact family heads farm federal figures focal concerns full-time ghetto groups have-nots higher household increase labor force less living low-income low-wage industries major male median ment merchants Michael Harrington middle class million minimum Mollie Orshansky mother Negro population nonfarm nonwhite number of children occupational opportunities organized patterns percent percentage persons political poor families poverty line poverty-linked problem productivity professional programs public assistance public housing Puerto Rican relative Report skills slum Social Security Social Security Administration society Spanish-American standards statistics subculture Table tion Total number unem unemployed unemployment United unrelated individuals urban wage war on poverty welfare women workers York York City