Moving to opportunity :: the story of an American experiment to fight ghetto poverty /

If "bad" neighborhoods are truly bad for children and families, especially the minority poor, can moving to better neighborhoods lead them to better lives? Might these families escape poverty altogether, beyond having a better quality of life to help them cope with being poor? Federal poli...

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Main Author: Briggs, Xavier de Souza
Other Authors: Popkin, Susan J., Goering, John M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary:If "bad" neighborhoods are truly bad for children and families, especially the minority poor, can moving to better neighborhoods lead them to better lives? Might these families escape poverty altogether, beyond having a better quality of life to help them cope with being poor? Federal policymakers and planners thought so, on both counts, and in 1994, they launched Moving to Opportunity. The 80 million social experiment enrolled nearly 5,000 very low-income, mostly black and Hispanic families, many of them on welfare, who were living in public housing in the inner-city neighborhoods.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 305 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199741861
0199741867
0195393716
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