Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty - Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity

About the author

Kathleen Pickering is Professor of Anthropology at Colorado State University.Mark H. Harvey is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University.Gene F. Summers is Professor Emeritus of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.David Mushinski is Associate Professor of Economics at Colorado State University.

Summary

Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty examines welfare participants who live in chronically poor rural areas of the United States where there are few job opportunities and poor systems of education, transportation, and child care. Pickering looks at welfare reform in four rural and impoverished regions of the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Mark H. Harvey, David Mushinski, Kathleen (Colorado State University) Pickering, Gene F. (Professor Emeritus) Summers
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780271028781
• ISBN: 978-0-271-02878-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Illustrations: 5 Charts
• Series: Rural Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics