Child Poverty and Inequality: Securing a Better Future for America's Children

by Duncan Lindsey

Book Overview

One of the United States great promises is that all children will be given the opportunity to work to achieve a comfortable standard of living. That promise has faded profoundly for children who grow up in poverty, particularly black and Hispanic children, and many of the deepening fault lines in the social order are traceable to this disparity. In recent years the promise has also begun to fade for children of the middle class. Education and hard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195305442
• ISBN13: 9780195305449
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"