The Road to Poverty

The Road to Poverty PDF Author: Dwight B. Billings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521655460
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Book Description
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.