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, 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. "
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