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1 online resource (xiv, 495 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Innovation in social policy : evaluating state efforts to reform welfare, promote work, and help low-income families / Gary Bryner and Ryan Martin -- Social policy and marriage / Lawrence M. Mead -- Working families should not be poor : the new hope program / Anjali E. Gupta, Jessica Thornton Walker, and Aletha C. Huston -- Who will care when parents can't? An overview of trends in kinship care with a focus on the child-only provisions of the temporary assistance to needy families program / Kevin D. Blair and David B. Taylor -- Understanding the processes through which economic hardship influences families and children / Rand D. Conger and Katherine Jewsbury Conger -- Early childhood education and care : an opportunity to enhance the lives of poor children / Anna D. Johnson, Kate Tarrant, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Appalachian families and poverty : historical issues and contemporary economic trends / W. Sean Newsome [and others] -- Poverty and economic polarization among children in racial minority and immigrant families / Daniel T. Lichter, Zhenchao Qian, and Martha L. Crowley -- Processes of poverty and social exclusion in poor families / Angela Abela and Carmel Tabone -- Mexican American families and poverty / Scott Coltrane [and others] -- Mexican immigrant childbearing women : social support and perinatal outcomes / Lynn Clark Callister and Ana Birkhead -- Food insecurity and provisioning : chronic challenges faced by families living in poverty on the northern Cheyenne Indian reservation / Erin Feinauer Whiting and Carol J. Ward -- How economically disadvantaged are American elderly women? Gender differences in economic well-being in old age / Martha N. Ozawa and Hong-Sik Yoon -- Effect of socioeconomic status on the community functioning of people with serious mental illness and their families / Eric D. Johnson -- Addiction and Medicaid : a prairie sighting of Califano's "Elephant in the living room of American society" and state budgets / Harvey H. Hillin -- Incarceration, poverty, and families / Stephen J. Bahr -- Children's time use and parental involvement in low-income families / W. Jean Yeung and Rebecca Glauber -- Cognitive and emotional outcomes for children in poverty / R. Gabriela Barajas, Nina Philipsen, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Challenging social inequalities in health / Michael Murray and David F. Marks -- Giving Head Start a fresh start / Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney -- Grandparents : a family resource? / Lynda Clarke -- Poor fathers' involvement in the lives of their children / Melvin N. Wilson -- Health-care safety net for Mexican-origin families / Ronald J. Angel, Jacqueline L. Angel, and Laura Lein -- Federal policy efforts to improve outcomes among disadvantaged families by supporting marriage and family stability / M. Robin Dion and Alan J. Hawkins -- Microenterprise : building well-being among poor U.S. families / Warner P. Woodworth -- Working with families in poverty : toward a multilevel, population-based approach / Matthew R. Sanders and William Bor -- Increasing marriage would dramatically reduce child poverty / Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, and Patrick F. Fagan. |
| Summary |
Covers hotly debated issues associated with public policy and funded research as they relate to families and poverty. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Poverty -- United States.
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Poverty. |
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United States. |
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Poor families -- United States.
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Poor families. |
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Families -- United States.
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Families. |
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Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States.
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Economic assistance, Domestic. |
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Public welfare -- United States.
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Public welfare. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Crane, D. Russell.
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Heaton, Tim B.
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Sage Publications.
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Sage eReference (Online service)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Handbook of families and poverty. Los Angeles : Sage Publications, ©2008 9781412950428 1412950422 (DLC) 2007018220 (OCoLC)124036259 |
| ISBN |
1412976596 |
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9781412976596 |
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9781452214566 (electronic book) |
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1452214565 (electronic book) |
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9781412950428 |
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1412950422 (cloth) |
| Standard No. |
10.4135/978-1-41297-659-6 |
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