" This volume is an excellent overview of the dimensions and sources of American poverty.
John Iceland combines statistical data, theoretical arguments, and historical information in a …

First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously
influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last …

T h is third revision reflects my continuing belief that poverty in the United States is not only a
major concern—perhaps the biggest the nation faces—but also a source of angry …

In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United
States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many …

Why is there so much poverty in America in the 1990s? What can be done to reduce it? In
this book the leading experts review three decades of research on the nature, causes, and …

Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families,
dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation—these are the realities of 21st …

As Americans experiment with dismantling the nation's welfare system, clichés and slogans
proliferate, ranging from charges that the poor are simply lazy to claims that existing …

IN THE MID-1960s, the United States embarked on a War on Poverty. The generals in the
war enlisted economists and other social scientists to help them define and measure …

Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of
economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional …

This volume, develops three principal themes. First, poverty is not monolithic; secondly, the
so-called underclass within the poverty population represents a new and corrosive …