| Description |
x, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Published in conjunction with the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Confronting poverty and declining opportunity -- Connecting the dots / David K. Shipler -- Economic mobility in the United States: how much is there and why does it matter? / Jared Bernstein -- The vanishing middle class / Elizabeth Warren -- The forces undermining the American dream -- The great doubling: the challenge of the new global labor market / Richard B. Freeman -- The risky outlook for middle-class America / Jacob S. Hacker -- Single mothers, fragile families / Sara McLanahan -- A new agenda for America's ghetto poor / William Julius Wilson -- Spurring better jobs and creating higher incomes -- Up and out: when the working poor are poor no more / Katherine S. Newman -- The earned income tax credit / John Karl Scholz -- Making work pay / Beth Shulman -- Education and training for less affluent Americans in the new economy / Harry J. Holzer -- Jobs for life / David Spickard -- Sharing the prosperity: asset building -- Reducing wealth disparities through asset ownership / Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro -- Banking the poor: overcoming the financial services mismatch / Michael S. Barr -- Assets for all: toward universal, progressive, lifelong accounts / Michael Sherraden -- Making saving easier: the automatic 401(k) and automatic individual retirement account (IRA) / Peter Orszag -- An affordable homeownership strategy that promotes savings rather than risk / Michael A. Stegman -- Making homeownership a reality by believing in working-class families / Martin Eakes -- The role of the entrepreneur in combating poverty / Secretary Jack F. Kemp -- Strengthening family and community -- Why we should be concerned about young, less educated, black men / Ronald B. Mincy and Hillard Pouncy -- A hopeful future: the pathway to helping teens avoid pregnancy and too-soon parenthood / Carol Mendez Cassell -- Public schools: building capacity for hope and opportunity / Dennis K. Orthner -- Getting parents and community into the school reform act / Hugh B. Price -- Top down meets bottom up: local job creation in rural America / Anita Brown-Graham -- Strengthening the rural community / Ruston Seaman and Michael Ferber -- Fighting poverty with equitable development / Angela Glover Blackwell -- Ending poverty in America / Senator John Edwards. |
| Subject |
Poverty -- United States.
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United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009.
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| Added Author |
Edwards, John, 1953 June 10-
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Crain, Marion G.
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Kalleberg, Arne L.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity.
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| ISBN |
9781595581761 hardcover |
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1595581766 hardcover |
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