The Road to Poverty

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The Road to Poverty is written by Dwight B. Billings and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521655463 (ISBN 10) and 9780521655460 (ISBN 13).

Kathleen Blee and Dwight Billings examine the social dynamics of persistently poor rural communities through the history of Clay County, an especially po or section of the Eastern Kentucky mountains in Appalachia. This book makes an important contribution to basic research on inequality pointing to the shortcomings of treating symptomatic problems of low income, while failing to address systemic ones at a time when American policymakers are struggling to design and implement effective programs to move people from welfare to work.