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1 online resource (200 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
"At each stage of their lives--from infant cribs to teen dropouts to welfare dependents to basement shelters for the elderly--the people of the underclass are shunned by the rest of the population, even by the working poor. The cycle is vicious: Underclass children get little help in their own homes (when they have homes); they are shoved aside at school until they drop out like their parents did; they are unable to find decent work without an education; they have children of their own for whom they cannot provide adequate care; and finally, they are dumped into human (but inhumane) warehouses for the not-quite-deceased. America cannot afford to do this to its poorest citizens; we cannot afford " not " to rescue the underclass. In the richest country on earth, the people of the underclass are not merely a problem, they are a scandal.". |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital Editions. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
EDUCATION / Preschool & Kindergarten.
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Poor -- United States -- Case studies.
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| Local Subject |
Poor people -- United States -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davis, Peter, 1937- If you came this way. New York : Wiley, c1995. 0471110744 (acid-free paper) (DLC)5012872 |
| ISBN |
9781497682122 (e-pub) |
| Standard No. |
9781497682122 |
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