Poverty in America a handbook / [electronic resource] :
John Iceland.
- 3rd ed.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013.
- xiii, 214 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Early views of poverty in America -- Methods of measuring poverty -- Characteristics of the poverty population -- Global poverty -- Causes of poverty -- The Great Recession -- Poverty and policy -- Conclusion.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Poor--History.--United States Poverty--History.--United States Economic assistance, Domestic--History.--United States