The Persistence of Poverty in the United States

by Stephen L. Mangum, Garth Mangum, Andrew M. Sum

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801871301
• ISBN13: 9780801871306
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.9"