*Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice
in
Nonmetropolitan America
By
Don E. Albrecht, Professor
Rural Sociology and
Community Studies Program
Department of Recreation, Park & Tourism
Sciences
Texas A&M University
*An earlier version of this Web
Book appears as a White Paper in the Michigan State University MAES Series. See
www.maes.msu.edu/cvp/themes.htm
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
I. Introduction
II. Trends and Correlates of Poverty and Inequality
Poverty, Inequality
and Residence
Poverty, Inequality and
Race
Family
Structure, Poverty and Inequality
Age, Poverty and Inequality
III. Theories of Poverty and Inequality
IV. Factors Impacting Future Poverty and Inequality
Patterns
Economic Restructuring, Poverty and
Inequality
The First Economic Structure
Transformation
The Second Economic Structure
Transformation
The Consequences of Economic
Restructuring
The William Julius Wilson Model of
Poverty
The Kuznets' Inequality
Curve
Changing Social Conditions, Poverty and
Inequality
Changing Male and Female Labor Force
Participation
Increasing Minority
Populations
Changing Family
Structure
Changing Age Structure
V. Confronting Poverty: Potential National and Community
Responses
VI. References
VII. Figure and
Tables
Figure
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Table
1
Table
2
Table
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Table
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