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Additional authors

1. Will, Robert E., 1928-
2. Vatter, Harold G.
3. Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003

Description

1. xiii, 274 pages illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

1. Series of articles on poverty in the USA. Housing and nutrition problems. Income distribution trends in times of economic recession, war and peace. The social structure. Case studies of the family standard of living. Poverty in rural areas among seasonal workers and other rural workers. Effects of low income levels on youth. Unemployment within minority groups. Discrimination. Health services. Government policy and welfare programmes.

Subject

1. Universidad Sergio Arboleda
2. Poor > United States
3. Poverty
4. Poverty > United States
5. poverty
6. Poor
7. Poverty
8. Armut
9. housing
10. nutrition
11. income distribution
12. trend
13. economic recession
14. war
15. peace
16. social structure
17. family
18. standard of living
19. rural area
20. seasonal workers
21. rural worker
22. youth
23. unemployment
24. minority group
25. discrimination
26. health service
27. government policy
28. welfare
29. pauvreté
30. logement
31. répartition du revenu
32. tendance
33. récession économique
34. guerre
35. paix
36. structure sociale
37. famille
38. niveau de vie
39. zone rurale
40. travailleur saisonnier
41. travailleur rural
42. jeunesse
43. chômage
44. groupe minoritaire
45. service de santé
46. politique gouvernementale
47. bien-être
48. pobreza
49. vivienda
50. nutrición
51. distribución del ingreso
52. tendencia
53. recesión económica
54. guerra
55. paz
56. estructura social
57. familia
58. nivel de vida
59. zona rural
60. trabajador de temporada
61. trabajador rural
62. juventud
63. desempleo
64. grupo minoritario
65. discriminación
66. servicio de salud
67. política gubernamental
68. bienestar
69. United States
70. USA
71. USA
72. Etats-Unis
73. Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

1. novels.
2. Novels
3. Fiction
4. case study.
5. Fiction.
6. Novels.
7. Romans.
8. étude de cas.
9. estudio de casos.

Contents

1. 1. The problem of poverty today. Poverty as a way of life / B. Seebohm Rowntree -- Poverty remains a bitter reality / Council of Economic Advisers -- I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- The great unfinished work of our society / Lyndon B. Johnson -- What are the costs of failure to adjust our human resources? / Fred A. Mangum, Jr. -- One-fifth of a nation / Robert J. Lampman -- 2. Trends in income, wealth, and poverty. Income distribution in depression, war, and peace / Selma F. Goldsmith -- What's happening to our social revolution? / Herman P. Miller -- The distribution of wealth / Gabriel Kolko -- The rich get richer / Walter Reuther -- 3. Ideologies of poverty. Poverty wasn't always a curse -- Overpopulation and the distress of the lower classes / Thomas R. Malthus -- Exploitation and the accumulation of misery / Karl Marx -- Poverty purifies society / Herbert Spencer -- Survival of the fittest / William Graham Sumner -- Survival of the unfittest / Thomas H. Huxley -- Caring for the unfit : the poor law / John Stuart Mill -- The advantages of poverty / Andrew Carnegie -- The lower classes deserve no better than they get / Robert E. Lane -- Two basically different views held on causes of poverty / George Gallup -- 4. Poverty as a subculture. To live miserable we know not why / Robert Hunter -- A portrait of the underprivileged / Frank Riessman -- The economics of a subculsture / Council of Economic Advisers -- The poor pay more / David Caplovitz -- 5. Spatial distribution of poverty. Poverty on the Lower East Side : 6 live "heavy life" on $1 a day / Paul Montgomery -- Spatial income patterns : an analytical view / Eugene Smolensky -- Slums and poverty / Conference on Economic Progress -- Panorama of rural poverty / Buis T. Inman -- Appalachia : the path from disaster / Harry Caudill -- The Jalopy nomads / Barbara Carter -- Migratory farm workers / Lenore Epstein -- 6. Poverty among specific groups. The young. Anthony Rocha : never to be employed / Newsweek -- Effects of low income on children and their families / Lenore Epstein -- Negro youths in the ghetto / James B. Conant -- Who fails selective service tests? / Robert S. McNamara -- Income and college attendance / Willard Wirtz -- Dropouts, delinquency, and lower-class children / Erdman Palmore -- The unemployed and the underpaid. Alfred Michel : unemployed steelworker / Newsweek -- Profile of the unemployed / Robert L. Stein -- Concealed unemployment / Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution -- The underpaid / Walter Reuther -- The minority poor. Family on relief : Puerto Ricans in New York / Philip Dougherty -- The minority poor / Sargent Shriver -- Fayette county : Negro farmers' experience with rural development / National Sharecroppers Fund -- The American Indian, dispossessed and abandoned / Editorial, The Christian Century -- The ill and the elderly. Edmund MacIntosh : how to be 74 on $50 a month / Ben Bagdikian -- Psychiatrists and the poor / Robert Coles -- Physical and mental illness and the medical care of the poor / Dwight Macdonald -- Health care problems of older Americans / President's Council on Aging -- The aged / Sargent Shriver -- Income of the aged / Lenore Epstein -- The multi-problem family. Homer Burleigh : how many problems can a man have? / Ben Bagdikian -- The convergence of poverty-linked characteristics / Oscar Ornati -- 7. Other cultural dimensions of poverty. The self-reinforcing nature of poverty. Poverty breeds poverty / Council of Economic Advisers -- Legacy of poverty / Mollie Orshansky -- Population and poverty. The high price of high fertility / Philip M. Hauser -- The political inarticulateness of the poor. The political invisibility of the poor / Michael Harrington -- The political potential of class and race / S. M. Miller -- Governmental programs and their critics. Summary of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 -- The political analyst : it will be a long war / Bernard D. Nossiter -- The far left : an out-and-out political swindle / Monthly Review -- Right of center : a battle plan of questionable value / Carl H. Madden and John R. Miles -- Left of center : employment opportunities basic in combatting poverty / AFL-CIO Executive Council -- An economic analysis : the negative income tax and other policies / Robert J. Lampman -- The disengagement of social workers from the poor / S. M. Miller -- Only the federal government can abolish poverty / Michael Harrington -- New Haven, Connecticut : what one city can do / Howard W. Hallman -- Poverty in perspective. Harry Martin : the dreams of a six year old / Ben Bagdikian -- The hungry world / Royal Bank of Canada -- Domestic welfare versus defense spending / John W. Fulbright -- Income without jobs : a new utopia? / Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution -- The ethics of poverty / John C. Bennett.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library