Poverty and Inequality in the United States : Context, Analysis, and Policy

A comprehensive overview to income distribution and poverty in the United States.

From the patterns of production and consumption in a typical household to the effects of immigration on income distribution, the book provides a thorough introduction to the ways poverty is analyzed, including a discussion of the methodological issues that confront researchers.

It includes sections on poverty among the elderly, the disabled, married couples, and single parent families, as well as the difference in poverty in rural and urban areas. The second half of the book looks at economic policies to remediate poverty, tracing the history of legislation from the Depression to Clinton's welfare reform.

It concludes by forecasting the issues that remain for the 21st century.