If food-stamp benefits are counted as income, there is little change in estimates of persistent poverty for children between the late 1960s and early 1980s. However, the absence of change in persistent poverty masks a number of important changes in the demographic and statistical structure of persistent poverty. These changes include increasing inequality in the… Continue reading Has children’s poverty become more persistent?
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Rags to rags: poverty and mobility in the United States
Early arguments over the “culture of poverty” assumed considerable intergenerational transmission of poverty but differed over whether this was due to cultural inadequacies of the poor or to structural barriers and discrimination faced by the poor. These arguments subsided by the 1970s when quantitative social stratification studies such as Blau & Duncan (1967) found that… Continue reading Rags to rags: poverty and mobility in the United States