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Solving Poverty: Innovative Strategies from Winnipeg's Inner City

Solving Poverty: Innovative Strategies from Winnipeg's Inner City

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General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

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ISBN10: 1552668215
ISBN13: 9781552668214
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Published: Apr 1 2016
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Poverty in Canada's inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past decade, Jim Silver argues that urban poverty today includes not only low incomes, but in all too many cases also poor housing, poor health, low educational achievement, high levels of neighbourhood violence, racism, colonialism and social exclusion. As a result many poor people experience low levels of self-esteem and self-confidence and may blame themselves, which is reinforced by the dominant blame-the-victim discourse about poverty. Silver argues that today's urban poverty is qualitatively different than the urban poverty of forty years ago, and that there are no quick, easy or one-dimensional solutions.

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