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Blank, Rebecca M. – 1997
This book examines the condition of America's poor and the policies used to help them, demonstrating that government aid has been far more effective in reducing poverty than most people think. One of the primary points of the book is that poverty is not synonymous with single mothers and their children on welfare; in fact, the majority of the poor…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Crime, Early Parenthood