Contemporary Issues Companion - Inner-City Poverty (paperback edition)

The United States has been fighting a war on poverty for nearly forty years and yet poverty seems as entrenched as ever in American society. The chapters in this anthology include an examination of urban poverty, government and grass-roots solutions to poverty, and personal views of life in the poor inner-city.

"This thoughtful, lucidly written work presents an evenhanded discussion of five major issues. The best organized introduction for the student needing report or debate material. The abundantly footnoted text quotes many primary sources and draws upon scientific examples to illuminate the questions. Informative...black-and-white photographs accompany the text. The appended list of organizations and the generally current list of books for further reading are both annotated."
-- School Library Journal (December 2000) (School Library Journal 20001201)

"Many of the articles were written by professional journalists, but some are more personal. Titles should find a place and school libraries."
-- School Library Journal (June 2002) (School Library Journal 20020601)

"There are plenty of dynamic opinions from professionals with firsthand knowledge of the topic."
-- Booklist (May 2002) (Booklist 20020501)

"This anthology of opinion was culled from newspapers, periodicals, reports, and documents, published mainly in the late 1990s. The authors discuss contributing factors to this problem, generalizations that have become associated with it, and possibilites that might help to alleviate it...This title covers much ground and is generally well balanced...An extremely useful volume for research and reports."
-- School Library Journal (Febraury 2003) (School Library Journal 20030201)