Poverty in America (eBook)

A Handbook

John Iceland (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013 | 3. Auflage
226 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95679-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The United States is among the most affluent nations in the world and has its largest economy; nevertheless, it has more poverty than most countries with similar standards of living. Growing income inequality and the Great Recession have made the problem worse. In this thoroughly revised edition of Poverty in America, Iceland takes a new look at this issue by examining why poverty remains pervasive, what it means to be poor in America today, which groups are most likely to be poor, the root causes of poverty, and the effects of policy on poverty. This new edition also includes completely updated data and extended discussions of poverty in the context of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements as well as new chapters on the Great Recession and global poverty. In doing so this book provides the most recent information available on patterns and trends in poverty and engages in an open and accessible manner in current critical debates.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Early Views of Poverty in America
2. Methods of Measuring Poverty
3. Characteristics of the Poverty Population
4. Global Poverty
5. Causes of Poverty
6. The Great Recession
7. Poverty and Policy
Conclusion

Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: accessible manner • affluent nation • Critical Debate • Economics • economic success • economist • Great Recession • income inequality • occupy wall street • patterns and trends • pervasive poverty • political activist • political and social activism • poor in america • Public Health • sociologist • Sociology • Tea Party • wealth disparity
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95679-6 / 0520956796
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95679-7 / 9780520956797