Poverty and discrimination

By:

Lang, Kevin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton Oxford 2007Description: xiii, 407 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN:

9780691119540

Subject(s):

Poverty -- United States; Economic policy; Public welfare -- United States; Discrimination -- United States; United States -- Social policy

DDC classification:

362.556LAN

Summary: Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.

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Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.

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