Fighting Poverty

What Works and What Doesn't

Edited by Sheldon H. Danziger

Edited by Daniel Weinberg

    1. Introduction
    Sheldon H. Danziger and Daniel H. Weinberg

    2. Public Spending for the Poor: Trends, Prospects, and Economic Limits
    Gary Burtless

    3. Antipoverty Policy: Effects on the Poor and the Nonpoor
    Sheldon H. Danziger, Robert H. Haveman, and Robert D. Plotnick

    4. Poverty in America: Is Welfare the Answer or the Problem?
    David T. Ellwood and Lawrence H. Summers

    5. Health Care for the Poor: The Past Twenty Years
    Paul Starr

    6. The Effect of Direct Job Creation and Training Programs on Low-Skilled Workers
    Laurie J. Bassi and Orley Ashenfelter

    7. Education and Training Programs and Poverty
    Nathan Glazer, Comment by Christopher Jencks

    8. Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty
    Rebecca M. Blank and Alan S. Blinder

    9. Household Composition and Poverty
    Mary Jo Bane

    10. Poverty and Family Structure: The Widening Gap between Evidence and Public Policy Issues
    William Julius Wilson and Kathryn M. Neckerman

    11. Legal Rights and Welfare Change, 1960-1980
    Michael R. Sosin, Comment by Lawrence M. Mead

    12. Social Policies, Civil Rights, and Poverty
    Charles V. Hamilton and Dona C. Hamilton

    13. The Political Foundations of Antipoverty Policy
    Hugh Heclo

    14. The Main Themes
    Edward M. Gramlich

    15. A Poverty Research Agenda for the Next Decade
    Daniel H. Weinberg

    References

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Contributors

    Index

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Sheldon Danziger is Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Daniel H. Weinberg is an economist with the Office of Income Security Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.