An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart 1960-2003 - Couverture rigide

Glasmeier, Amy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415953359 ISBN 13 : 9780415953351

Editeur : Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

An Atlas of Poverty in America Showing students how and where America's regional development patterns have become more uneven, this atlas illustrates the number of communities falling behind the national economic average. It is the historical atlas of poverty in America from 1960. It provides an analytic narrative, and also includes a demo CD. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Persistant poverty has long been one of America's most pressing and intractable problems. According to some estimates, by 2003, almost twenty-five percent of the America's countries had per-capita incomes below one half the national average, high unemployment, low labour force participation rates, and a high dependency on government transfer payments - all measures of economic distress. An Atlas of Poverty in America shows how and where America's regional development patterns have become more uneven, and graphically illustrates the increasing number of communities falling behind the national economic average. Readers will be able to use this Atlas to see how major events and trends have impacted the scope and extent of American poverty in the past half-century:economic globalization, the rise of the sunbelt, decline of the welfare state, and the civil rights movement. Also includes 195 colour maps.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Amy Glasmeier is Professor of Geography and Regional Planning at Penn State University. She is the editor of Economic Geography, both North American and Book Editor for Regional Studies, a Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, Member of the Rural Poverty Research Center, Founding Member of the World University Network, Member of National Academy Board of Sciences on Infrastructure and the Built Environment, and is the author of eleven previous books.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415953359
• ISBN 13: 9780415953351
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 118