| An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart 1960-2003 [With CDROM] Contributor(s): Glasmeier, Amy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415953359 ISBN-13: 9780415953351 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $199.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: Persistant poverty has long been one of Americas most pressing and intractable problems. According to some estimates, by 2003: almost 25% of the America's counties had per-capita incomes below one half the national average, high unemployment, low labor force participation rates, and a high dependency on government transfer payments -all measures of economic distress." An Atlas of Poverty in America" shows how and where our nation's regional development patterns have become more uneven and graphically illustrates the increasing number of communities falling behind the national economic average. Readers will be able to use this atlas to see how major events and trends have impacted the scope and extent of American poverty in the past half-century-economic globalization, the rise of the sunbelt, decline of the welfare state, and the civil rights movement. Also includes 195 color maps. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Social Science | Human Geography - Social Science | Reference |
| Dewey: 339.460 |
| LCCN: 2005028141 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 12.04" W x 9.26" (2.03 lbs) 118 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Persistant poverty has long been one of America's most pressing and intractable problems. According to some estimates, by 2003, almost twenty-five percent of the America's countries had per-capita incomes below one half the national average, high unemployment, low labour force participation rates, and a high dependency on government transfer payments - all measures of economic distress. An Atlas of Poverty in America shows how and where America's regional development patterns have become more uneven, and graphically illustrates the increasing number of communities falling behind the national economic average. Readers will be able to use this Atlas to see how major events and trends have impacted the scope and extent of American poverty in the past half-century: economic globalization, the rise of the sunbelt, decline of the welfare state, and the civil rights movement. Also includes 195 colour maps. |