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The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States
Coordinators: Haymes Stephen, Vidal de Haymes Maria, Miller Reuben
Language: EnglishSubjects for The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States:
Keywords
Welfare Reform; barriers; United States; discourse; Middle Class; neoliberal; TANF; market; OWS; fundamentalism; Civil Society; migrant; Barriers Discourse; civil; AFDC; society; Follow; civilian; Community Development Intermediaries; non-institutionalized; LIHTC; Economic Human Rights; TANF Recipient; Local Economic Trading Systems; Consumer Credit; Federal Reserve; Nonprofit Organization; Capabilities Approach; People’s Economic Human Rights; Neoliberal Globalization; Discursive Practices; Neoliberal Economic Order; Vice Versa; PRWORA; Home Hardships
Publication date: 12-2014
· 17.4x24.6 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 06-2017
· 17.4x24.6 cm · Paperback
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In the United States, the causes and even the meanings of poverty are disconnected from the causes and meanings of global poverty. The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States provides an authoritative overview of the relationship of poverty with the rise of neoliberal capitalism in the context of globalization.
Reorienting its national economy towards a global logic, US domestic policies have promoted a market-based strategy of economic development and growth as the obvious solution to alleviating poverty, affecting approaches to the problem discursively, politically, economically, culturally and experientially. However, the handbook explores how rather than alleviating poverty, it has instead exacerbated poverty and pre-existing inequalities ? privatizing the services of social welfare and educational institutions, transforming the state from a benevolent to a punitive state, and criminalizing poor women, racial and ethnic minorities, and immigrants.
Key issues examined by the international selection of leading scholars in this volume include: income distribution, employment, health, hunger, housing and urbanization. With parts focusing on the lived experience of the poor, social justice and human rights frameworks ? as opposed to welfare rights models ? and the role of helping professions such as social work, health and education, this comprehensive handbook is a vital reference for anyone working with those in poverty, whether directly or at a macro level.
Stephen Nathan Haymes María Vidal de Haymes
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. His research, writing, and advocacy work focus on the well-being of former prisoners living in large urban settings and the ways in which criminal justice and social welfare policy are daily experienced by urban poor populations.