Azzi-Lessing, Lenette, <br/><br/>
Behind from the start :  how America's war on the poor is harming our most vulnerable children / 
Lenette Azzi-Lessing. 
 - New York, NY :  Oxford University Press,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Poor policies for poor families: a look at our current situation --  From the war on poverty to the war on poor families: history and ideology --  Poverty is poison: multiple assaults on young lives --  It takes a firestorm: how the child welfare system harms children and perpetuates the cycle --  The emperor's old clothes: the false promise of simple solutions --  We're gonna need a bigger boat: stronger, better strategies for breaking the cycle --  From neurons to national policy: policy prescriptions for ending intergenerational poverty. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780190459048 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poor children--Social conditions--United States--21st century.<br/>Children--Social conditions--United States--21st century.<br/>Child welfare--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ792  / .B445 2017