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The Persistence of Poverty in the United States

Product Description: For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers have relied on successive editions of Sar A. Levitan's Programs in Aid of the Poor. Now, in conjunction with the eighth edition of that classic work, coauthors Garth Mangum, Stephen Mangum, and Andrew Sum offer a brief but comprehensive overview of the facts of poverty in the United States, its underlying causes, and the reasons for its persistence in the richest nation in the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sar A. Levitan, Garth L. Mangum, Stephen L. Mangum and Andrew M. Sum

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9780801871306 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 16, 2003, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers have relied on successive editions of Sar A.

Programs in Aid of the Poor

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By Sar A. Levitan, Garth L. Mangum, Stephen L. Mangum and Andrew M. Sum

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9780801871221 | 8 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 11, 2003), cover price $26.00

Programs in Aid of the Poor

Product Description: The revised and updated seventh edition of this standard work for students, scholars, and policymakers takes into account the broad changes in federal assistance programs since 1991. It reviews the steady erosion of entitlement programs to families with dependent children, single-parent households, youth, veterans, and the elderly...read more

By Sar A. Levitan

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Hardcover:

9780801856884 | 7 sub edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1998), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The revised and updated seventh edition of this standard work for students, scholars, and policymakers takes into account the broad changes in federal assistance programs since 1991.

9780801840395 | 6 sub edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, July 1, 1990), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: The revised and updated seventh edition of this standard work for students, scholars, and policymakers takes into account the broad changes in federal assistance programs since 1991.

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9780801857133 | 7th edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1998), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The revised and updated seventh edition of this standard work for students, scholars, and policymakers takes into account the broad changes in federal assistance programs since 1991.

9780801840401 | Sixth edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The revised and updated seventh edition of this standard work for students, scholars, and policymakers takes into account the broad changes in federal assistance programs since 1991.

Working but Poor: America's Contradiction

Product Description: This revised edition examines the experiences and hardships of today's poor workers, and analyzes how government policies can best relieve deprivation and encourage work. The book also assesses the impact of unemployment, technological development, immigration and international trade...read more

By Frank Gallo, Sar A. Levitan and Isaac Shapiro

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9780801845741 | Rev sub edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: This revised edition examines the experiences and hardships of today's poor workers, and analyzes how government policies can best relieve deprivation and encourage work.

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9780801845758 | Revised edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $14.95

Families in Flux: New Approaches to Meeting Workforce Challenges for Child, Elder and Health Care in the 1990s

By Elizabeth A. Conway and Sar A. Levitan

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9781558711624 | Bureau of Natl Affairs Inc, February 1, 1990, cover price $35.00

What's Happening to the American Family?: Tensions, Hopes, Realities

Surveys statistics concerning the American family and discusses marriage, fertility, children, female-headed families, welfare, and legal considerations

By Richard S. Belous, Frank Gallo and Sar A. Levitan

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9780801837029 | Rev sub edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 1, 1988), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Surveys statistics concerning the American family and discusses marriage, fertility, children, female-headed families, welfare, and legal considerations

A Second Chance: Training for Jobs

Product Description: Ideas about job training, youth, etc. by two experts. Levitan is the author of "Shorter Hours, Shorter Weeks; Spreading the Work to Reduce Unemployment"

By Frank Gallo and Sar A. Levitan

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Hardcover:

9780880990578, titled "Second Chance: Training for Jobs" | W E Upjohn Inst for, March 1, 1988, cover price $36.00

Paperback:

9780880990561 | W E Upjohn Inst for, March 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Ideas about job training, youth, etc.

Protecting American Workers: An Assessment of Government Programs/0521

Product Description: Book by Levitan, Sar A., Carlson, Peter E., Shapiro, Isaac

By Peter E. Carlson, Sar A. Levitan and Isaac Shapiro

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9780871795212 | Bna Books, July 1, 1986, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book by Levitan, Sar A.

Beyond the Safety Net: Reviving the Promise of Opportunity in America

Argues that our welfare system is working, suggests new programs be added to spur employment opportunities, and examines conservative complaints about the system

By Clifford M. Johnson and Sar A. Levitan

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Hardcover:

9780887300134 | Ballinger Pub Co, September 1, 1984, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Argues that our welfare system is working, suggests new programs be added to spur employment opportunities, and examines conservative complaints about the system

Productivity--Problems, Prospects, and Policies

Product Description: Book by Levitan, Professor Sar A., Werneke, Professor Diane

By Sar A. Levitan and Diane Werneke

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9780801830389 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by Levitan, Professor Sar A.

Business Lobbies: The Public Good and the Bottom Line

Product Description: Book by Levitan, Professor Sar A., Cooper, Ms. Martha

By Martha Cooper and Sar A. Levitan

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Hardcover:

9780801831089 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Book by Levitan, Professor Sar A.

Working for the Sovereign: Employee Relations in the Federal Government

By Sar A. Levitan and Alexandra B. Noden

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Hardcover:

9780801830280 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1983, cover price $22.50

Second Thoughts on Work

By Clifford M. Johnson and Sar A. Levitan

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Hardcover:

9780880990004 | Rev sub edition (W E Upjohn Inst for, September 1, 1982), cover price $34.00

Paperback:

9780880990011 | Revised edition (W E Upjohn Inst for, January 1, 1982), cover price $19.00

The t in Ceta: Local and National Perspectives

By Sar A. Levitan

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Hardcover:

9780911558944 | W E Upjohn Inst for, December 1, 1981, cover price $40.00

Paperback:

9780911558937 | W E Upjohn Inst for, December 1, 1981, cover price $19.00

Evaluating Federal Social Programs: An Uncertain Art

Book by Levitan, Sar A.

By Sar A. Levitan

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Hardcover:

9780911558654 | W E Upjohn Inst for, September 1, 1979, cover price $28.00

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9780911558647 | W E Upjohn Inst for, June 1, 1979, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Book by Levitan, Sar A.

More Than Subsistence: Minimum Wages for the Working Poor

By Richard S. Belous and Sar A. Levitan

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9780801822742 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 1, 1979, cover price $8.95

The Promise of Greatness

Product Description: What is the right social policy for the future? Sar A. Levitan and Robert Taggart have written a book that dispassionately examines recent social programs. They respond to the fashionable arguments that question the results of government intervention and the need to correct social and economic ills...read more

By Sar A. Levitan

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Hardcover:

9780674714557 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1976, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: What is the right social policy for the future?

Paperback:

9780674714564 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1976, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: What is the right social policy for the future?

Child Care and ABC's Too

Examines the current status of the American child-care system as well as profiling today's working mother

By Sar A. Levitan

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Hardcover:

9780801817335 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 1, 1976, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Examines the current status of the American child-care system as well as profiling today's working mother

Still a Dream: The Changing Status of Blacks Since 1960

By Sar A. Levitan

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9780674838567 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $29.95

Minorities in the United States: Problems, Progress, and Prospects

Reviews the current, changing economic, political, and social status of blacks, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and American Indians, indicating broad patterns of losses and gains

By Sar A. Levitan

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Paperback:

9780818302428 | Public Affairs Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: Reviews the current, changing economic, political, and social status of blacks, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and American Indians, indicating broad patterns of losses and gains

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