TY - BOOK AU - Batchelder,Alan B. TI - The economics of poverty SN - 0471055654 AV - HC110.P6 B3 U1 - 339.460973 PY - 1971/// CY - New York PB - Wiley KW - Poverty KW - Poor KW - Poverty-United States N1 - Includes bibliographical footnotes and index N2 - This volume summarises the character and extent of poverty, and analyses its causes in the American context. The author also describes the programmes which transfer money from the non-poor to the poor, and looks at the various social welfare programmes designed to alleviate poverty; he also gives choices in the American setting on how to reduce poverty effectively ER -