Children in Jeopardy Can We Break the Cycle of Poverty?

Name: Children in Jeopardy Can We Break the Cycle of Poverty?
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ISBN: 9780300199802

ISBN-10: 0300199805

ISBN-13: 9780300199802

Edition: N/A

Authors: Irving B. Harris

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American children are in crisis. Inner cities are filled with violence and massive drug problems; families are dysfunctional; illiteracy is rising; society's efforts to combat educational failure, poverty, crime, and disease have created an enormous economic debt for the future. In this compassionate and controversial book Irving Harris argues that the key to breaking the cycle of poverty, hopelessness, and violence is very early intervention: we must provide adequate caregiving to children from birth to age three and-to stop the cycle even sooner-we must discourage pregnancy among adolescents. Harris, a successful businessman, has devoted himself to children's causes for the past forty…

Book details

List price: $19.50
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/31/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.98" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English