Normal view
MARC view
Is poverty a serious threat? / Mercedes Muñoz, book editor.
Series: At issue (San Diego, Calif.). Social issues.Publication details: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2006.Description: 117 p. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780737727265 (pbk.) :
- 0737727268 (pbk.) :
- HC110.P6 I8 2006
Contents:
The poor are worse off in the United States than in other countries / David R. Francis -- The poor in the United States live comfortably / Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson -- Most workers do not suffer long-term poverty / Thomas Sowell -- It is difficult for the working poor to escape poverty / David K. Shipler -- The poor often lack access to health care / James Mullahy, Barbara L. Wolfe -- The poor do not lack access to health care / Conrad F. Meier -- Poverty causes terrorism / Quan Li, Drew Schaub -- Poverty does not cause terrorism / Walter Laqueur -- Poverty causes environmental degradation / Jack M. Hollander -- Poverty does not cause environmental degradation / David Satterthwaite -- Education for the poor must be improved / Benjamin L. Page, James R. Simmons -- Rural poverty has become worse than urban poverty / Timothy Egan.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | HC 110 .P6 I8 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | TOPIC BOOKS | 5051383 |
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| HC 110 .I53 B56 2013 Planning local economic development : theory and practice / | HC 110 .P6 D83 1973 Perspectives on poverty, | HC 110 .P6 H3 1984 The new American poverty / | HC 110 .P6 I8 2006 Is poverty a serious threat? / | HC 110 .P6 S465 2010 Scratch beginnings : me, 25, and the search for the American dream / | HC 110 .P6 S48 2004 The working poor : invisible in America / | HC 110 .P6 T57 2014 Hand to mouth : the truth about being poor in a wealthy world / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-114) and index.
The poor are worse off in the United States than in other countries / David R. Francis -- The poor in the United States live comfortably / Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson -- Most workers do not suffer long-term poverty / Thomas Sowell -- It is difficult for the working poor to escape poverty / David K. Shipler -- The poor often lack access to health care / James Mullahy, Barbara L. Wolfe -- The poor do not lack access to health care / Conrad F. Meier -- Poverty causes terrorism / Quan Li, Drew Schaub -- Poverty does not cause terrorism / Walter Laqueur -- Poverty causes environmental degradation / Jack M. Hollander -- Poverty does not cause environmental degradation / David Satterthwaite -- Education for the poor must be improved / Benjamin L. Page, James R. Simmons -- Rural poverty has become worse than urban poverty / Timothy Egan.
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