Vijay Govindarajan

Stephen L. Mangum

Sven B. Lundstedt

Joel E. Thompson

Janet P. Near

Marcia P. Miceli

Cynthia Fraser

Tony McAdams

John K. Shank

Michael W. Spicer

James L. Perry

Martha C. Cooper

Richard J. Murdock

Orlando Behling

Clark Leavitt

Leslie J. Berkes

Marcus H. Sandver

David Greenberger

Barry M. Mitnick

Elaine T. Chen

Herbert G. Heneman (III)

John D. Blackburn

Lisa M. Lynch

Robert A. Hansen

Stephen A. Buser

Tetsunori Koizumi

Bonnie Lee Roach

Kathryn S. Miller

Randall L. Rose

Robert C. Miljus

Debra Jo Cohen

Working Paper Series

Garth L. Mangum

Sar A. Levitan

Andrew M. Sum

Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Market Studies Northeastern University Andrew M Sum

In 1964, Lyndon Johnson declared an "unconditional war on poverty," launching a variety of new antipoverty programs and enhancing existing ones. This war is still being fought. But with what success? And at what cost? Incorporating new data from the 2000 census, the eighth edition of Programs in Aid of the Poor provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of current federal programs aimed at alleviating poverty in the United States. The authors focus on programs that offer cash support, provide goods and services to poor people, address the well-being of children and youth, prepare young people to earn above-poverty incomes, and offer adults a second chance to earn their way out of poverty. They also discuss the definition of poverty, identify who the poor are, and generalize the causes of poverty. "To an extent," the authors find, "we have prosecuted our war against poverty the way Senator George Aiken of Vermont advised that we do in Vietnam: 'Declare victory and go home.' Yet the war against poverty has not been abandoned. Skirmishes continue, with widely fluctuating commitment." Co-authors Garth and Stephen Mangum and Andrew Sum have also prepared a companion volume, The Persistence of Poverty in the United States, analyzing the underlying causes of poverty and its persistence in America.

Programs in Aid of the Poor

John Davis Stegman

Patric H. Hendershott

L. Belbin

Gary B. Hansen

Glenn Wesley Milligan

J. T. Goode

Varghese S. Jacob

D. P. Faith

Joe Peek

Rosemary Kalapurakal

Peter Bolt

Some More Lessons from Japan

Firm-level Adjustment to Competition from Newly Industrializing Countries

For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers have relied on successive editions of Sar A. Levitan's Programs in Aid of the Poor. Now, in conjunction with the eighth edition of that classic work, coauthors Garth Mangum, Stephen Mangum, and Andrew Sum offer a brief but comprehensive overview of the facts of poverty in the United States, its underlying causes, and the reasons for its persistence in the richest nation in the world. Providing a wealth of data and cogent analysis, this book can be used along with Programs for additional background, or can stand on its own. "This volume demonstrates more starkly than its parent the persistence of poverty in this nation. Though some individuals and families manage to escape it, the phenomenon diminishes not at all—or at least very little . . . Having been sobered by this thought, the student may ponder what more might conceivably be done to reduce the incidence of that endemic economic and social disease."—from the Preface

The Persistence of Poverty in the United States

Stephen L. Mangum

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