War on Poverty - A Retrospective

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Kyle Farmbry Klappentext The War on Poverty: A Retrospective examines the strategies and programs launched since 1964 through the eyes of academics and practitioners engaged in education, health care, social services provision, and community economic development. Zusammenfassung The War on Poverty: A Retrospective examines the strategies and programs launched since 1964 through the eyes of academics and practitioners engaged in education! health care! social services provision! and community economic development. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsPreface, Kyle FarmbryIntroduction: The War on Poverty - Some Initial Thoughts, Kyle FarmbryPoverty 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 DolezalImmigration 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 MaulbeckWar as Metaphor: The Convergence of the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, Keesha MiddlemassPoverty and Juvenile Justice: Exploring the Intersections, Identifying the Solutions, Al PassarellaHome Sweet Home: Race, Housing, and the Foreclosure Crisis, Rosie UyolaNot in My Backyard: An Examination of Suburban Gentrification as Tool for Combating Poverty, Portia Allen-KylePoverty and Health Care, Venessa PerryThe Educational Achievement Gap and Poverty: Lessons of ESEA and Head Start, Franklin Dickerson TurnerWorkforce Development in an Era of Diminishing Work, Michael VorgettsWorker Cooperatives as Models for Economic Engagement, Daphne BerryInclusive Capitalism and Poverty Alleviation, David Madland, Karla Walters, Alex IngramsConclusion, Kyle FarmbryAbout the EditorAbout the ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Kyle Farmbry
• Assisted by: Kyle Farmbry (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2016
• EAN: 9780739199244
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9924-4
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, 21st Century, Poverty & unemployment, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Central government policies, Poverty and precarity, Lyndon Johnson;Poverty