Human Resources and Labor Markets: Employment and Training in the American Economy

Business & Money

Marshall, Ray

Mangum, Garth L.

Levitan, Sar A.

Human Resources

HarperCollins, Publishers

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. The authors focus on programs that offer cash support, provide goods and services to poor people, address the well-being of children and youth, prepare young people to earn above-poverty incomes, and offer adults a second chance to earn their way out of poverty. They also discuss the definition of poverty, identify who the poor are, and generalize the causes of poverty.
"To an extent," the authors find, "we have prosecuted our war against poverty the way Senator George Aiken of Vermont advised that we do in Vietnam: 'Declare victory and go home.' Yet the war against poverty has not been abandoned. Skirmishes continue, with widely fluctuating commitment."
Co-authors Garth and Stephen Mangum and Andrew Sum have also prepared a companion volume, The Persistence of Poverty in the United States, analyzing the underlying causes of poverty and its persistence in America.

Programs in Aid of the Poor

Mangum, Stephen L.

Sum, Andrew M.

Economics

Johns Hopkins University Press

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. Providing a wealth of data and cogent analysis, this book can be used along with Programs for additional background, or can stand on its own."This volume demonstrates more starkly than its parent the persistence of poverty in this nation. Though some individuals and families manage to escape it, the phenomenon diminishes not at all―or at least very little... Having been sobered by this thought, the student may ponder what more might conceivably be done to reduce the incidence of that endemic economic and social disease."―from the Preface

The Persistence of Poverty in the United States

Three Worlds of Labour Economics

Philips, P.

Routledge

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an Informa company.

Book by Mangum, Garth L., Blumell, Bruce D.

The Mormons' War on Poverty: A History of Lds Welfare 1830-1990 (PUBLICATIONS IN MORMON STUDIES)

Blumell, Bruce D.

Religion & Spirituality

Univ of Utah Pr

Labor Struggle in the Post Office: From Selective Lobbying to Collective Bargaining (Labor and Human Resources)

Using data from the 2000 Census, this collection examines the major demographic and employment trends in the rural Midwestern states with special attention to the issues that state and local policy makers must address in the near future.

Labor Struggle in the Post Office: From Selective Lobbying to Collective Bargaining: From Selective Lobbying to Collective Bargaining (Labor & Human Resources S)

WALSH, JOHN.

History

The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics of the postwar regimes in Eastern Europe who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it.

Union Resilience in Troubled Times: The Story of the Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO, 1960-93: The Story of the Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO, 1960-93 (Studies in Socio-Economics)

Walsh, Jack

The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics of the postwar regimes in Eastern Europe who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it.

Union Resilience in Troubled Times: The Story of the Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO, 1960-93 (Labor & Human Resources Series)

Walsh, Jack L.

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