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Product Description: For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers have relied on successive editions of Sar A. Levitan's Programs in Aid of the Poor. Now, in conjunction with the eighth edition of that classic work, coauthors Garth Mangum, Stephen Mangum, and Andrew Sum offer a brief but comprehensive overview of the facts of poverty in the United States, its underlying causes, and the reasons for its persistence in the richest nation in the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780801871306 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 16, 2003, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers have relied on successive editions of Sar A.

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Product Description: In 1964, Lyndon Johnson declared an "unconditional war on poverty," launching a variety of new antipoverty programs and enhancing existing ones. This war is still being fought. But with what success? And at what cost? Incorporating new data from the 2000 census, the eighth edition of Programs in Aid of the Poor provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of current federal programs aimed at alleviating poverty in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780801871221 | 8 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 11, 2003), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: In 1964, Lyndon Johnson declared an "unconditional war on poverty," launching a variety of new antipoverty programs and enhancing existing ones.

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Product Description: The revised and updated seventh edition of this standard work for students, scholars, and policymakers takes into account the broad changes in federal assistance programs since 1991. It reviews the steady erosion of entitlement programs to families with dependent children, single-parent households, youth, veterans, and the elderly...read more
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9780801856884 | 7 sub edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1998), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The revised and updated seventh edition of this standard work for students, scholars, and policymakers takes into account the broad changes in federal assistance programs since 1991.
9780801840395 | 6 sub edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, July 1, 1990), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: The revised and updated seventh edition of this standard work for students, scholars, and policymakers takes into account the broad changes in federal assistance programs since 1991.

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9780801857133 | 7th edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1998), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The revised and updated seventh edition of this standard work for students, scholars, and policymakers takes into account the broad changes in federal assistance programs since 1991.
9780801840401 | Sixth edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The revised and updated seventh edition of this standard work for students, scholars, and policymakers takes into account the broad changes in federal assistance programs since 1991.

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Product Description: This revised edition examines the experiences and hardships of today's poor workers, and analyzes how government policies can best relieve deprivation and encourage work. The book also assesses the impact of unemployment, technological development, immigration and international trade...read more
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9780801845741 | Rev sub edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: This revised edition examines the experiences and hardships of today's poor workers, and analyzes how government policies can best relieve deprivation and encourage work.

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9780801845758 | Revised edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This revised edition examines the experiences and hardships of today's poor workers, and analyzes how government policies can best relieve deprivation and encourage work.

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Surveys statistics concerning the American family and discusses marriage, fertility, children, female-headed families, welfare, and legal considerations
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9780801837029 | Rev sub edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 1, 1988), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Surveys statistics concerning the American family and discusses marriage, fertility, children, female-headed families, welfare, and legal considerations

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9780880990578, titled "Second Chance: Training for Jobs" | W E Upjohn Inst for, March 1, 1988, cover price $36.00

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9780880990561 | W E Upjohn Inst for, March 1, 1988, cover price $19.00

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Argues that our welfare system is working, suggests new programs be added to spur employment opportunities, and examines conservative complaints about the system
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9780887300134 | Ballinger Pub Co, September 1, 1984, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Argues that our welfare system is working, suggests new programs be added to spur employment opportunities, and examines conservative complaints about the system

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9780801830389 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $7.95

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9780801831089 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $20.00

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9780801830280 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1983, cover price $22.50

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9780880990004 | Rev sub edition (W E Upjohn Inst for, September 1, 1982), cover price $34.00

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9780880990011 | Revised edition (W E Upjohn Inst for, January 1, 1982), cover price $19.00

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9780911558944 | W E Upjohn Inst for, December 1, 1981, cover price $40.00

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9780911558937 | W E Upjohn Inst for, December 1, 1981, cover price $19.00

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9780911558654 | W E Upjohn Inst for, September 1, 1979, cover price $28.00

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9780911558647 | W E Upjohn Inst for, June 1, 1979, cover price $13.00

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9780801822742 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 1, 1979, cover price $8.95

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9780674714557 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1976, cover price $25.00

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9780674714564 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1976, cover price $31.00

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Examines the current status of the American child-care system as well as profiling today's working mother
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9780801817335 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1976, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Examines the current status of the American child-care system as well as profiling today's working mother

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9780674838567 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $29.95

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Reviews the current, changing economic, political, and social status of blacks, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and American Indians, indicating broad patterns of losses and gains
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9780818302428 | Public Affairs Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: Reviews the current, changing economic, political, and social status of blacks, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and American Indians, indicating broad patterns of losses and gains

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