Overview
Reference encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks are a great way to develop topic ideas. The handbooks below summarize some of the issues and policies around poverty and conclude with useful bibliographies to additional sources (books, articles, reports, and more).
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The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty by Publication Date: 2012Have countries made progress in mitigating poverty? How do we determine who is poor and who is not poor? What intuitions or theories guide the design of anti-poverty policy? Is overall labor market performance the key to keeping the poverty rate low? Or, does it matter how well-connected an individual is to those who know about the availability of jobs? Does being an immigrant increase the odds of being poor? Are there anti-poverty policies that work? For whom do they work? If I'm poor, will I have access to health care and housing? Am I more likely to be obese, polluted upon, incarcerated, un-banked, and without assets if I'm poor? Is poverty too hard a problemfor economic analysis? These are some of the questions that a distinguished group of scholars have come together to confront in this handbook.
The Oxford Handbook of U. S. Social Policy by Publication Date: 2014"... offers an historical overview of U.S. social policy from the colonial era to the present. This is followed by a set of chapters on different theoretical perspectives available for understanding and explaining the development of U.S. social policy. The three following parts of the volume focus on concrete social programs for the elderly, the poor and near-poor, the disabled, and workers and families. ...The final part of the book focuses on some of the consequences of the U.S. welfare state for poverty, inequality, and citizenship.
