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Author : Christina Smith FitzPatrick
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poverty Despite Work in Kentucky written by Christina Smith FitzPatrick and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (144 download)
Download or read book The High Price of Being Poor in Kentucky written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Ashland to Paducah and every community in between, Kentucky's lower-income working families often pay a premium for goods and services, making it difficult for them to build wealth, save for their children's futures, and invest in their upward mobility ... The good news is that state and local leaders around the country are rallying behind new innovative, practical and low-cost initiatives to lower these prices. With these and other initiatives as models for action, public and private leaders in Kentucky can now also reduce these higher costs of living, and do so in ways that defy the substantial budgetary, economic, and partisan pressures that limit so many efforts to grow the middle class. Through a combination of initiatives that lower business costs, curb unscrupulous behavior, and boost consumer knowledge, public and private leaders can bring down these prices. This report is a roadmap for how to reach this goal and improve the spending power and economic security of lower-income Kentuckians ..."--Executive summary (page 4).
Author : Kathleen Pickering
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271076372
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty written by Kathleen Pickering and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted, policy makers, agency administrators, community activists, and academics from a broad range of disciplines have debated and researched the implications of welfare reform in the United States. Most of the attention, however, has focused on urban rather than rural America. Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty examines welfare participants who live in chronically poor rural areas of the United States where there are few job opportunities and poor systems of education, transportation, and child care. Kathleen Pickering and her colleagues look at welfare reform as it has been experienced in four rural and impoverished regions of the United States: American Indian reservations in South Dakota, the Rio Grande region, Appalachian Kentucky, and the Mississippi Delta. Throughout these areas the rhetoric of reform created expectations of new opportunities to find decent work and receive education and training. In fact, these expectations have largely gone unfulfilled as welfare reform has failed to penetrate poor areas where low-income families remain isolated from the economic and social mainstream of American society. Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty sheds welcome light on the opportunities and challenges that welfare reform has imposed on low-income families situated in disadvantaged areas. Combining both qualitative and quantitative research, it will be an excellent guide for scholars and practitioners alike seeking to address the problem of poverty in rural America.
Author : Valerie Polakow
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484971
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Shut Out written by Valerie Polakow and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shut Out portrays in vivid detail the economic, educational, and existential struggles that single mothers confront as they fight back against a welfare-to-work regime that denies them access to higher education and obstructs their aspirations as autonomous women, determined to exit poverty and attain family self-sufficiency. The book is a unique blend of policy analysis and lived realities. The voices of student mothers fighting to stay in school, and organizing for a different future, are embedded in an analysis grounded in the educational experiences of women in poverty across the states. Harsh and punitive public policies that are designed to keep poor women trapped in low wage work are juxtaposed against the actions of those who, together with their allies, have resisted—inspired by a vision of a different world made possible by higher education. Contributing authors discuss the provisions of the 1996 "welfare reform" (PRWORA) Act and the myriad of statewide responses to educational options within the framework of national legislation. In documenting the multiple obstacles and policy restrictions that low income women face, the book also highlights successful state programs, institutional practices, and community-based programs that afford low income women educational opportunities. The afterword summarizes recent legislative developments and makes policy and advocacy recommendations for the future.
Author : John R. Burch, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476606943
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty written by John R. Burch, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owsley County, Kentucky, is well known by journalists, academics, and local historians as a quintessential example of rural poverty in Appalachia. This study identifies several reasons behind Owsley County's ongoing struggle with poverty, including the county's lack of natural resources, a poor transportation system, and a centralized socio-political power structure controlled by the entrenched elite. The author asserts that Owsley County's economic hardships are far from unique, but rather are representative of a significant number of Appalachian counties and towns. Several tables and appendices provide useful demographic, legislative, and agricultural data.
Author : Edward B. Lazere
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Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Poverty Despite Work Handbook written by Edward B. Lazere and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pem Davidson Buck
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Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Worked to the Bone written by Pem Davidson Buck and published by . This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines race, class, and the mechanics of inequality in the US, focusing on Kentucky and its political and social transformation from slavery, sharecropping, and Jim Crow through the populist era, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and the state's integration into the global economy. The author combines sociological insight with her own personal narrative to illustrate the ways in which constructions of race and the promise of white privilege have been used in two Kentucky counties to divide working class people. Buck teaches anthropology and sociology at a college in Kentucky. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Dwight B. Billings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521655460
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (554 download)
Download or read book The Road to Poverty written by Dwight B. Billings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Blee and Dwight Billings examine the social dynamics of persistently poor rural communities through the history of Clay County, an especially po or section of the Eastern Kentucky mountains in Appalachia. This book makes an important contribution to basic research on inequality pointing to the shortcomings of treating symptomatic problems of low income, while failing to address systemic ones at a time when American policymakers are struggling to design and implement effective programs to move people from welfare to work.
Author : Patricia La Caille John
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Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Poverty in Rural America written by Patricia La Caille John and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1590 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Departments of Labor and Health Education and Welfare Appropriations for 1970 written by United States. Congress. House Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1934 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annelise Orleck
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820331015
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The War on Poverty written by Annelise Orleck and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of “poverty pimps,” and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it. Examining the long War on Poverty from the 1960s onward, this book makes a controversial argument that the programs were in many ways a success, reducing poverty rates and weaving a social safety net that has proven as enduring as programs that came out of the New Deal. The War on Poverty also transformed American politics from the grass roots up, mobilizing poor people across the nation. Blacks in crumbling cities, rural whites in Appalachia, Cherokees in Oklahoma, Puerto Ricans in the Bronx, migrant Mexican farmworkers, and Chinese immigrants from New York to California built social programs based on Johnson's vision of a greater, more just society. Contributors to this volume chronicle these vibrant and largely unknown histories while not shying away from the flaws and failings of the movement—including inadequate funding, co-optation by local political elites, and blindness to the reality that mothers and their children made up most of the poor. In the twenty-first century, when one in seven Americans receives food stamps and community health centers are the largest primary care system in the nation, the War on Poverty is as relevant as ever. This book helps us to understand the turbulent era out of which it emerged and why it remains so controversial to this day.
Author : United States. Congress
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Total Pages : 1316 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies
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Total Pages : 1486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1970: Testimony of members of Congress and other individuals and organizations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Ann Huddleston-Casas
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Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Who are the Working-poor? written by Catherine Ann Huddleston-Casas and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty
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Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Rural Poverty in the United States written by United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Total Pages : 1490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Appropriations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
