Name: An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart 1960–2003
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Author: Amy Glasmeier
ISBN: 9780415953351

portada An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart 1960–2003

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Routledge

Author

Amy Glasmeier

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

118

Dimensions

23.5 x 30.6 x 1.5 cm

ISBN

0415953359

ISBN13

9780415953351

Edition No.

Synopsis "An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart 1960–2003"

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.