Contents	6
	Illustrations	8
	Contributors	10
	Acknowledgments	12
	1 Introduction: The Poverty Context	14
	Part I Cross-Sections of Oppression and Poverty	22
	2 “Greed Is Good”: The Idle Rich, the Working Poor, and Personal Responsibility	24
	3 Women in a Bind: The Decline of Marriage, Market, and the State	39
	4 Life After Welfare Reform	61
	5 The Dynamics of Rural Family Poverty	77
	6 Hispanic Families in Poverty: The Hidden Contribution of Immigration	91
	Part II Poverty Across the Life Span: Change, Crisis, and Resilience	106
	7 Family Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Child Development	108
	8 Childhood Disability, Poverty, and Family Life: A Complex Relationship	121
	9 Foster Care and Families Apart: Poverty, Placement, and Potential	134
	10 Poverty and Education	151
	11 Going It Alone: Single Motherhood and Poverty	163
	12 Old and Poor: America’s Hidden Problem	180
	Part III: Rethinking Family Poverty	198
	13 Poverty, Stress, Resilience: Using the MRM Model for Understanding and Abating Poverty-Related Family Stress	200
	14 Poverty, Policy, and Ideology	216
	Index	233