Rural Poverty in the United States

In a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty. It take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and uses their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans.

Summary

In a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty. It take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and uses their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Sherman Tickamyer, Ann Warlick Tickamyer
• Assisted by: Jennifer Sherman (Editor), Sherman Jennifer (Editor), Ann Tickamyer (Editor), Ann R. Tickamyer (Editor), Tickamyer Ann (Editor), Jennifer Warlick (Editor), Warlick Jennifer (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2017
• EAN: 9780231172233
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17223-3
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Sociology & anthropology, Development economics and emerging economies, Poverty and precarity