ABSTRACT
In the United States, the causes and even the meanings of poverty are disconnected from the causes and meanings of global poverty. The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States provides an authoritative overview of the relationship of poverty with the rise of neoliberal capitalism in the context of globalization.
Reorienting its national economy towards a global logic, US domestic policies have promoted a market-based strategy of economic development and growth as the obvious solution to alleviating poverty, affecting approaches to the problem discursively, politically, economically, culturally and experientially. However, the handbook explores how rather than alleviating poverty, it has instead exacerbated poverty and pre-existing inequalities – privatizing the services of social welfare and educational institutions, transforming the state from a benevolent to a punitive state, and criminalizing poor women, racial and ethnic minorities, and immigrants.
Key issues examined by the international selection of leading scholars in this volume include: income distribution, employment, health, hunger, housing and urbanization. With parts focusing on the lived experience of the poor, social justice and human rights frameworks – as opposed to welfare rights models – and the role of helping professions such as social work, health and education, this comprehensive handbook is a vital reference for anyone working with those in poverty, whether directly or at a macro level.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|87 pages
From the production of inequality to the production of destitution
chapter 1|8 pages
Beyond Coincidence
chapter 6|19 pages
The House Always Wins
part II|77 pages
Discourses of poverty
chapter 9|7 pages
The Problematic Conceptualizations And Constructions Of Poverty
part III|244 pages
From the welfare state to the neoliberal state
section Section I|59 pages
Transformation of the welfare state
chapter 18|10 pages
Poverty Reduction Through Education
chapter 19|8 pages
Students That Lag Or A System That Fails?
chapter 20|6 pages
The New Two-Tiered Education System In The United States
section Section II|109 pages
Transformation of the welfare state
chapter 25|10 pages
Countering Urban Poverty Concentration In The United States
chapter 26|11 pages
Privatizing The Housing Safety Net
chapter 27|11 pages
Poverty De-Concentration Priorities In Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Allocation Policy
chapter 29|14 pages
Examining Food Security Among Children In Households Participating In The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap)
section section III|72 pages
Transformation of the welfare state
chapter Chapter 31|8 pages
Managing The Neoliberal City
chapter 32|10 pages
The Rise Of Incarceration Among The Poor With Mental Illnesses
chapter 35|11 pages
Surviving Gender-Based Violence In The Neoliberal Era
chapter 36|8 pages
Systemic And Symbolic Violence As Virtue
part IV|81 pages
Global poverty and the lived experiences of poor communities in the United States
chapter 45|9 pages
Grounding Grandma
part V|57 pages
Organizing to resist neoliberal policies and poverty
chapter Chapter 47|9 pages
The Poverty Of “Poverty”
chapter 48|10 pages
Legitimizing And Resisting Neoliberalism In U.S. Community Development
chapter 52|7 pages
Migrant Civil Society
part VI|29 pages
Reframing poverty in the era of globalization