War on Poverty

Kyle Farmbry is associate dean of the Graduate School and associate professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark.

Editor Farmbry has assembled a policy-oriented group of scholars and practitioners who produced chapters that together comprehensively cover a range of topics and look back on 50 years of US anti-poverty efforts. Contributors cover the essentials of debates over poverty and its causes—e.g., single motherhood, racism, education, immigration, health care, rural/urban/suburban divides—as well as topics of special interest after the Great Recession, including a superb chapter on policies that contributed to the foreclosure crisis. The policy orientation means chapters cover not only the usual human capital, education, and workforce development strategies for alleviating poverty but also worker cooperatives and programs to promote 'inclusive capitalism'—ways to engage workers in decisions about production and investment and to compensate workers with a greater share of the returns to increased productivity. Summing Up:Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

• ContentsPreface, Kyle FarmbryIntroduction: The War on Poverty – Some Initial Thoughts, Kyle FarmbryPoverty Policy Link: Three Examples, Sebawit G. Bishu and Mohamad Alkadry Women and Children in Poverty: How Low Income Female Headed Families Have Fared Since the War on Poverty, Regina Malveaux and Rachel DolezalImmigration and Poverty , Portia Diñoso Campos “The Movement’s Broadway”: Race, Poverty, Education, and Healthcare in the State of Mississippi, Jennifer A. Stollman and Susan M. Glisson Poverty in Appalachia, Joanna MaulbeckWar as Metaphor: The Convergence of the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, Keesha MiddlemassPoverty and Juvenile Justice: Exploring the Intersections, Identifying the Solutions, Al PassarellaHome Sweet Home: Race, Housing, and the Foreclosure Crisis, Rosie UyolaNot in My Backyard: An Examination of Suburban Gentrification as Tool for Combating Poverty, Portia Allen-KylePoverty and Health Care, Venessa PerryThe Educational Achievement Gap and Poverty: Lessons of ESEA and Head Start, Franklin Dickerson TurnerWorkforce Development in an Era of Diminishing Work, Michael VorgettsWorker Cooperatives as Models for Economic Engagement, Daphne BerryInclusive Capitalism and Poverty Alleviation, David Madland, Karla Walters, Alex IngramsConclusion, Kyle FarmbryAbout the EditorAbout the ContributorsBibliographyIndex