Understanding Poverty

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Understanding Poverty is written by Sheldon DANZIGER and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674030176 (ISBN 10) and 9780674030176 (ISBN 13).

In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. Understanding Poverty brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the twenty-first century.