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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Older people
ISBN : PURD:32754081236519
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Older people
ISBN : UCAL:$B642835
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Older people
ISBN : PURD:32754081236501
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Older people
ISBN : UCAL:B4272203
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Older people
ISBN : LCCN:66062289
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:85230739
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Older people
ISBN : LCCN:65062996
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1492 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Older people
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023755890
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Older people
ISBN : PURD:32754081236527
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1492 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Older people
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023755890
Author : Martha J. Bailey,Sheldon Danziger
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610448147
Many believe that the War on Poverty, launched by President Johnson in 1964, ended in failure. In 2010, the official poverty rate was 15 percent, almost as high as when the War on Poverty was declared. Historical and contemporary accounts often portray the War on Poverty as a costly experiment that created doubts about the ability of public policies to address complex social problems. Legacies of the War on Poverty, drawing from fifty years of empirical evidence, documents that this popular view is too negative. The volume offers a balanced assessment of the War on Poverty that highlights some remarkable policy successes and promises to shift the national conversation on poverty in America. Featuring contributions from leading poverty researchers, Legacies of the War on Poverty demonstrates that poverty and racial discrimination would likely have been much greater today if the War on Poverty had not been launched. Chloe Gibbs, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas Miller dispel the notion that the Head Start education program does not work. While its impact on children’s test scores fade, the program contributes to participants’ long-term educational achievement and, importantly, their earnings growth later in life. Elizabeth Cascio and Sarah Reber show that Title I legislation reduced the school funding gap between poorer and richer states and prompted Southern school districts to desegregate, increasing educational opportunity for African Americans. The volume also examines the significant consequences of income support, housing, and health care programs. Jane Waldfogel shows that without the era’s expansion of food stamps and other nutrition programs, the child poverty rate in 2010 would have been three percentage points higher. Kathleen McGarry examines the policies that contributed to a great success of the War on Poverty: the rapid decline in elderly poverty, which fell from 35 percent in 1959 to below 10 percent in 2010. Barbara Wolfe concludes that Medicaid and Community Health Centers contributed to large reductions in infant mortality and increased life expectancy. Katherine Swartz finds that Medicare and Medicaid increased access to health care among the elderly and reduced the risk that they could not afford care or that obtaining it would bankrupt them and their families. Legacies of the War on Poverty demonstrates that well-designed government programs can reduce poverty, racial discrimination, and material hardships. This insightful volume refutes pessimism about the effects of social policies and provides new lessons about what more can be done to improve the lives of the poor.
Author : Michael Harrington
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780684826783
Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309115872
As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and care aides. Educators and health professional groups can use Retooling for an Aging America to institute or increase formal education and training in geriatrics. Consumer groups can use the book to advocate for improving the care for older adults. Health care professional and occupational groups can use it to improve the quality of health care jobs.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309483988
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.
Author : Annelise Orleck,Lisa Gayle Hazirjian
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820341842
Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of "poverty pimps," and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it. Examining the long War on Poverty from the 1960s onward, this book makes a controversial argument that the programs were in many ways a success, reducing poverty rates and weaving a social safety net that has proven as enduring as programs that came out of the New Deal. The War on Poverty also transformed American politics from the grass roots up, mobilizing poor people across the nation. Blacks in crumbling cities, rural whites in Appalachia, Cherokees in Oklahoma, Puerto Ricans in the Bronx, migrant Mexican farmworkers, and Chinese immigrants from New York to California built social programs based on Johnson's vision of a greater, more just society. Contributors to this volume chronicle these vibrant and largely unknown histories while not shying away from the flaws and failings of the movement--including inadequate funding, co-optation by local political elites, and blindness to the reality that mothers and their children made up most of the poor. In the twenty-first century, when one in seven Americans receives food stamps and community health centers are the largest primary care system in the nation, the War on Poverty is as relevant as ever. This book helps us to understand the turbulent era out of which it emerged and why it remains so controversial to this day.