Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index.
Contents
I. Introduction -- II. Theoretical approaches toward explaining poverty -- III. United States poverty and its definition and measurement -- IV. The nature of poverty and characteristics of the poor -- V. Analysis of poverty's distribution and characteristics -- VI. A spatially and temporally varying model of poverty -- VII. Conclusions and policy implications.
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