Sar A Levitan
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The increasing attention given to American Indians on television and in newspapers and magazines is evidence that popular interest is growing rapidly, and the original Americans are being exposed as the most socially and economically disadvantaged population in the entire country. And what has the federal government done about it? This volume by Sar A. Levitan and Barbara Hetrick answers the question by presenting a general analysis and critical evaluation...
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For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers concerned with the alleviation of poverty have relied on successive editions of Sar A. Levitan's Programs in Aid of the Poor. Now, in conjunction with the eighth edition of that classic work, coauthors Garth Mangum, Stephen Mangum, and Andrew Sum offer a brief but comprehensive overview of the facts of poverty in the United States, its underlying causes, and the reasons for its persistence...