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Books on: poverty and cities

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Race, Poverty, and American Cities

Book by John Charles Boger, Judith Welch Wegner; University of North Carolina Press, 1996

Subjects:

Cities And Towns--United States, Sociology, Urban--United States, United States--Race Relations, Urban Policy--United States, Urban Poor--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...Race, Poverty, and American Cities Race, Poverty, and American Cities Edited...Publication Data Race, poverty, and American cities / edited by John Charles...increased concentration of poverty in central cities largely as a function of...
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Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities

Book by William W. Goldsmith, Edward J. Blakely, Harvey Gantt; Temple University Press, 1992

Collections: Entire Library

...contributions to severe poverty in American cities can be traced to corporate...improvement, now most cannot. In cities especially, poverty has been increasing...Central Cities Central Poverty Areas All...
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Population, Poverty, and Politics in Middle East Cities

Book by Michael E. Bonine; University Press of Florida, 1997

Subjects:

Middle East--Politics And Government, Middle East--Social Conditions, Urban Policy--Middle East, Urban Poor--Middle East, Urbanization--Middle East

Collections: Entire Library

"Comprehensively and knowledgeably addresses uniquely modern dilemmas of urban places in the Middle East.... A very important volume". -- Janet L. Bauer, Trinity College, Hartford
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American Poverty in a New Era of Reform

Book by Harrell R. Rodgers Jr.; M. E. Sharpe, 2000

Subjects:

Poor--United States, Poverty--United States, Public Welfare--United States

Collections: Entire Library

This compelling survey of the problem of poverty, its costs and consequences, focuses on the implementation and initial results of the welfare reform plan of 1996. The book underscores the importance of backing up welfare reform with policies that support families' efforts to make genuine ...
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This compelling survey of the problem of poverty, its costs and consequences, focuses on the implementation and initial results of the welfare reform plan of 1996. The book underscores the importance of backing up welfare reform with policies that support families' efforts to make genuine, sustainable improvements in their lives and the prospects of their children.
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City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty

Book by Ananya Roy; University of Minnesota Press, 2003

Subjects:

Calcutta (India)--Social Conditions, Poor Women--India--Calcutta, Poverty--India--Calcutta, Women In Development--India--Calcutta

Collections: Entire Library

...Volume 1 The Work of Cities Susan E. Clarke...and the Politics of Poverty Ananya Roy...necessarily imply studying poverty. I had grown up in...of my interest in cities. It was thus not...which the hegemony of poverty is quietly reproduced...Third World primate cities requiring diagnosis...

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Journal Articles on: poverty and cities

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Ghettos in Canada's Cities? Racial Segregation, Ethnic Enclaves and Poverty Concentration in Canadian Urban Areas

Journal article by R. Alan Walks, Larry S. Bourne; The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 50, 2006

Subjects:

Inner cities--Analysis, Inner cities--Forecasts and trends, Poverty rate--Analysis, Segregation--Analysis, Urban ecology--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

Ghettos in Canadas Cities? Racial Segregation, Ethnic Enclaves and Poverty Concentration in Canadian...related to concentrated poverty in Canadian cities, and in torn, how...populations, marginality and poverty in Prairie cities (Kazemipur and Halli...
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Immigration and Poverty in Canadian Cities, 1971-1991

Journal article by David Ley, Heather Smith; Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 20, 1997

Subjects:

Poverty--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

Immigration and Poverty in Canadian Cities, 1971-1991. by David...the variable geographies of poverty between the cities. Our findings support other...Further Work In Canadas major cities concentrated poverty does involve the recently...
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Gender Poverty Disparity in US Cities: Evidence Exonerating Female-Headed Families

Journal article by Sara Lichtenwalter; Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, Vol. 32, 2005

Subjects:

Economic policy

Collections: Entire Library

Gender Poverty Disparity in US Cities: Evidence Exonerating Female-Headed...of the seventy largest U.S. cities the gender disparity in poverty rates is the greatest; and...that in the 70 largest US cities the poverty gap is primarily influenced...
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Shall We Go Home? Increasing Urban Poverty in African Cities and Migration Processes

Journal article by Deborah Potts; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 161, 1995

Subjects:

Rural-urban migration--Research, Sub-Saharan Africa--Emigration and immigration, Urbanization--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...home? Increasing urban poverty in African cities and migration processes...1994 Third World cities: poverty, employment, gender...aspects of assaulting poverty in Africa. London: Heinemann...3. Simon, D. 1992 Cities, capital and development...
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Distribution Sensitive Measures of Poverty in the United States

Journal article by John A. Bishop, John B. Formby, Buhong Zheng; Review of Social Economy, Vol. 57, 1999

Subjects:

Cities and towns--Economic aspects, Economists--Research, Households--Economic aspects, Income distribution--Statistics, Poverty--Statistics, Sen, Amartya--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...poverty. Table 5 shows poverty in low COL cities of the Midwest is 17...Detroit and the low COL cities of the Northeast. Thus, poverty increases substantially...federal block grants to cities based upon official poverty statistics are biased...

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Magazine Articles on: poverty and cities

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A Tale of Two Cities: In the Past Couple of Decades, Los Angeles and Houston Have Both Seen Huge Growth in Their Latino Populations-And in Latino Poverty. but That's Where the Similarities End

Magazine article by Harold Meyerson; The American Prospect, Vol. 15, June 2004

Subjects:

Ethnic groups--Political activity, Politics--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

A Tale of Two Cities: In the Past Couple of Decades...Populations-And in Latino Poverty. but Thats Where the Similarities...stood at 37 percent. In both cities, the levels of Latino registration...is to see American urban poverty at its most extreme. In...
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Supporting Towns and Cities to Achieve the MDGs: Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers

Magazine article by Anna Tibaijuka; UN Chronicle, Vol. 44, December 2007

Subjects:

Cities and towns--Social aspects, Poverty--Social aspects, Poverty--United States, Progress--Social aspects, Urban poor--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Supporting Towns and Cities to Achieve the...eradicate extreme poverty through the Millennium...locus of global poverty is moving into these towns and cities, especially into...fastest migration to cities and towns in history...below the extreme poverty line, and the...
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Make Poverty History

Magazine article by Heather Macandrew; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 32, July 2006

Subjects:

Empowering Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction--Criticism and interpretation, Mitlin, Diana--Authorship, Neuwirth, Robert--Authorship, Satterthwaite, David--Authorship, Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Society and Urban Poverty Reduction, Diana...Earthscan, 2004. Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters...in reducing urban poverty is "not very promising...approach in Shadow Cities. A New York journalist...question: how do we make poverty history? Both books...impact on the worlds cities. Heather MacAndrew...
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Slumlord; Pat Moynihan Has Done Some Great Things - but Betraying the Poverty Warriors Isn't One of Them

Magazine article by Nicholas Lemann; Washington Monthly, Vol. 23, May 1991

Subjects:

African Americans--Social aspects, Moynihan, Daniel Patrick--Evaluation, Poverty--Political aspects, Welfare--Laws, regulations, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...family and the culture of poverty simply ceased. Race...blacks to the northern cities during and after World...instinctively disliked the war on poverty. Two months after taking...nature of the war on poverty faded from memory; it...renewal, CETA, Model Cities, theyve had everything...
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Human Race Day: Humanity Organized to End Poverty

Magazine article by Brian Webster; UN Chronicle, Vol. 42, December 2005

Subjects:

Holidays--Social aspects, International relief organizations--Services, Poverty--Prevention, United Nations--Services

Collections: Entire Library

...will to abolish extreme global poverty and meet the Millennium Development...simultaneously in over 100 cities worldwide starting in September...8 Global Concerts to Fight Poverty featured 100 leading pop stars...performing to a live audience in ten cities on three continents. It was...

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Newspaper Articles on: poverty and cities

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Obama's $6 Billion Poverty Platform; Eyes War Funds for Urban Youth

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 19, 2007

Subjects:

Child development, Edwards, John, Poverty

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...agenda to combat urban poverty, which he said would...to replicate in 20 cities such successful child...Edwards focused on poverty broadly, including...his initiative on cities, although he said...do a thing about poverty - that it is a result...back and let these cities fend for themselves...
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'Poverty Is More Devastating in Rural Areas'

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 4, 2008

Subjects:

Poverty, Rural areas, Sparsely populated areas

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...MP Peter Luff (Con) said: "Poverty is more concentrated in our great towns and cities but it can have an even more...provide outside towns and cities. A spokesman for Advantage...there were concerns about poverty in rural areas. However...
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Ampatuan Strengthens Anti-Poverty Program; Takes as Challenge Report on High Poverty Incidence in ARMM

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 19, 2008

Subjects:

Poverty--Laws, regulations and rules, Poverty--Philippines, Poverty--Reports, Poverty--Statistics, Poverty--Surveys

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Shariff Kabunsuan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi and the cities of Lamitan and Basilan. The 2006 NSCB survey found out that the ARMM has the highest poverty incidence in the country -- 55.3 percent, followed by Caraga and Region...
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1m in Rural Poverty

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 4, 2008

Subjects:

Poverty--Reports

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...yesterday. They live below the official poverty line while the houses around them aresnapped...by wealthy second home owners from the cities, Gordon Browns ruraladvocate said. The...Locally-born youngsters are heading for the cities in high numbers, the reportsaid. Dr Burgess...
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RP on A[euro]poverty Red alerta[euro][TM]

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 14, 2006

Subjects:

Poverty

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...that underlies the poverty situation. Further, in response to poverty report, GCAP asked the government to create social safety net...would benefit the poorest people in the poorest provinces or cities, such as food subsidy and public workfare programs. "Know the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: poverty and cities

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Newark , Cities, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

NEWARK , cities, United States 1 City (1990 pop. 37,861), Alameda co., W Calif...corporate development, shopping center growth, and housing construction. Poverty and unemployment plagued Newark, which in July, 1967, was the scene...
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Jackson, Jesse Louis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and civil-rights activist, b. Greenville, S.C. Raised in poverty, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary (1963 65) and...addressed the economic problems of African Americans in northern cities. In 1971 he founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...reflecting Johnsons declaration of a "war on poverty" and his stated aim of creating a "Great...by serious race riots that erupted in cities across the nation, most devastatingly...rate of crime, most noticeable in the cities. Opposition to American involvement in...
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Mccarthy, Cormac

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a sleazy American South and Southwest filled with appalling poverty, violence, and cruelty. His novels include The Orchard Keeper...the next two books in the triad, The Crossing (1994) and Cities of the Plain (1998); No Country for Old Men (2005); and...
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Head Start

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Office of Economic Opportunity, which made individual grants to cities and other localities to set up Head Start centers. In 1969...Human Services). It was later extended to children above the poverty level, whose parents, however, had to pay according to their...

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