TY - BOOK ID - 7144308 TI - Understanding Poverty AU - Burtless, Gary AU - Cancian, Maria AU - Corcoran, Mary AU - Danziger, Sheldon H AU - Danziger, Sheldon AU - Durlauf, Steven N AU - Ferguson, Ronald F AU - Freeman, Richard B AU - Harris, David R AU - Karoly, Lynn A AU - Levine, Kara AU - Loury, Glenn C AU - Mullahy, John AU - Pavetti, Ladonna A AU - Rainwater, Lee AU - Reed, Deborah AU - Scholz, John Karl AU - Smeeding, Timothy M AU - Wolfe, Barbara L AU - Yinger, John AU - Haveman, Robert H AU - Waldfogel, Jane PY - 2021 SN - 0674007670 0674008766 0674030176 9780674030176 9780674007673 9780674008762 PB - Cambridge, MA DB - UniCat KW - Poverty KW - Poverty. KW - Poor. KW - Disadvantaged, Economically KW - Economically disadvantaged KW - Impoverished people KW - Low-income people KW - Pauperism KW - Poor KW - Poor, The KW - Poor people KW - Destitution KW - Economic conditions KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Wealth KW - Basic needs KW - Begging KW - Subsistence economy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7144308 AB - In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. Understanding Poverty brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the twenty-first century. ER -