This course analyzes the conditions and causes of poverty within the United States and the variety of economic, social, and political responses to it. The first part of the course explores the problems of poverty, including a discussion of various causal theories of poverty and the underlying implications of these theories. The second part of the course analyzes specific problems and policy proposals, with particular attention to the most recent round of legislative reforms since the mid‐1990’s.
| Semester: | Fall 2017 |
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| Instructor: | Natasha Pilkauskas |
| Category: | PIP |
| U-M Class #: | 20885 |
| Program Type:
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Program Type describes the program in which you are pursuing, i.e., residential or online part-time.
At this time, residential students may not directly enroll in online program courses, rather a course enrollment petition is required.
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Residential |
| Credits: | 3 Credit Hours |
| W: | Social Work is not the home dept; home dept in parenthesis, contact home dept with questions |
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University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 South University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106