Policies for the near poor
Posted October 3rd, 2007 by Tara Murray in Poverty and Income InequalityIn a new book, a Princeton University sociology professor and graduate student examine the challenges faced by the near poor—working families and individuals who are above the poverty line and thus unqualified for most government aid, but struggle to pay for necessities—and recommend policies to help them. The scholars say that this “missing class” has been ignored by research, except by research on the medically uninsured. (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Citation: Newman, Katherine S. and Victor Tan Chen (2007). The missing class: Portraits of the near poor in America. Boston: Beacon Press.
