Changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies / Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger -- Poverty levels and trends in … in poverty / Maria Cancian and Deborah Reed -- Immigration and poverty in the United States / Steven Raphael and Eugene … Smolensky -- Enduring influences of childhood poverty / Katherine Magnuson and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal -- Mobility in the United …

and complex portrait of the modern American welfare state. At a time when more than 40 million Americans live in poverty …In 1996, President Bill Clinton hailed the 'end of welfare as we know it' when he signed the Personal Responsibility … and Work Opportunity Act. The law effectively transformed the nation's welfare system from an entitlement to a work …