The first interdisciplinary reference to cover the socioeconomic and political history, the movements, and the changing face of poverty in the United States. Po

Leading scholars examine the conflicting paradigms of affluence and destitution in the United States—as well as other free societies—and discuss the influen

Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.

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 con

The first interdisciplinary reference to cover the socioeconomic and political history, the movements, and the changing face of poverty in the United States. Po