One Percent for the Kids: New Policies, Brighter Futures for America's Children

by IsabelV.Sawhill (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $33.66

  In the United States, long considered the land of opportunity, children born into different types of families begin life with very unequal prospects. A growing group of children is being raised in families in which a poorly educated mother begins childbearing at an early age, often outside marriage, and ends up dependent on public welfare.