| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 169 pages) |
| Contents |
Poverty and the suburbs : an introduction -- Suburban poverty, by the numbers -- Behind the numbers : what's driving suburban poverty? -- The implications of suburban poverty -- Fighting today's poverty with yesterday's policies -- Innovating locally to confront suburban poverty -- Modernizing the metropolitan opportunity agenda |
| Summary |
In this book, the authors take on the reality of metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America, explain the source and impact of these important developments, and present ideas on addressing them. For decades, suburbs added poor residents at a faster pace than cities, so that suburbia is now home to more poor residents than central cities, and over a third of the nation's total poor population. Yet the antipoverty infrastructure built over the past several decades does not fit this rapidly changing geography. The authors paint a new picture of poverty in America as well as the best ways to combat it. Their book offers a series of workable recommendations for public, private, and nonprofit leaders seeking to modernize poverty alleviation and community development strategies and connect residents with economic opportunity in cities and suburbs alike. The authors highlight efforts in metro areas where local leaders are learning how to do more with less and adjusting their approaches to address the metropolitan scale of poverty by integrating services and service delivery, collaborating across sectors and jurisdictions, and using data-driven and flexible funding strategies. As poverty becomes increasingly regional in its scope and reach, it challenges conventional approaches that the nation has taken when dealing with poverty in place. Many of those approaches were shaped when President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a national War on Poverty in 1964. At that time, poor Americans were most likely to live in inner-city neighborhoods or sparsely populated rural areas. Fifty years later, public perception still largely casts poverty as an urban or rural phenomenon. Poverty rates do remain higher in cities and rural communities than elsewhere. But for three decades, the poor population has grown fastest in suburbs. The changing map of American poverty matters because place matters. It starts with the metropolitan areas, the regional economies that cut across city and suburban lines and drive the national economy. Place intersects with core policy issues central to the long-term health and stability of metropolitan areas and to the economic success of individuals and families - things like housing, transportation, economic and workforce development, and the provision of education, health, and other basic services. -- Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Poor -- Government policy -- United States
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Poor -- United States.
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Suburbs -- United States -- Economic conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
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Poor
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Poor -- Government policy
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Suburbs -- Economic conditions.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berube, Alan
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| LC no. |
2023702514 |
| ISBN |
9780815723912 |
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0815723911 |
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1299610749 |
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9781299610743 |
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0815725809 |
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9780815725800 |
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