Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children

by Thomas S. Weisner, Aletha C. Huston, Greg J. Duncan, et al.

Book Overview

During the 1990s, growing demands to end chronic welfare dependency culminated in the 1996 federal "welfare-to-work" reforms. But regardless of welfare reform, the United States has always been home to a large population of working poor--people who remain poor even when they work and do not receive welfare. In a concentrated effort to address the problems of the working poor, a coalition of community activists and business leaders in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087154167X
• ISBN13: 9780871541673
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"