Higher Ground New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children

Name: Higher Ground New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children
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ISBN: 9780871541673

ISBN-10: 087154167X

ISBN-13: 9780871541673

Edition: 2009

Authors: Greg J. Duncan, Aletha C. Huston, Thomas S. Weisner, DUNCAN

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During the 1990s, growing demands to end chronic welfare dependency culminated in the 1996 federal welfare-to-work reforms. But regardless of welfare reform, the United States has always been home to a large population of working poor people who remain poor even when they work and do not receive welfare. In a concentrated effort to address the problems of the working poor, a coalition of community activists and business leaders in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, launched New Hope, an experimental program that boosted employment among the city s poor while reducing poverty and improving children s lives. In Higher Ground, Greg Duncan, Aletha Huston, and Thomas Weisner provide a compelling look at how…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Publication date: 1/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

About the Authors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Creating New Hope	p. 15
Participants	p. 31
The Evaluation	p. 42
Work and Poverty	p. 51
Children	p. 68
Families	p. 82
New Hope's Lessons	p. 100
New Hope and National Policy	p. 113
New Hope Program Impacts	p. 122
Afterword	p. 135
Notes	p. 141
References	p. 155
Index	p. 165
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