Ending poverty in America : how to restore the American dream / edited by John Edwards, Marion Crain, and Arne L. Kalleberg
- Bib ID:
- 3988849
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- New York : New Press, c2007
- x, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781595581761
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / by Marion Crain and Arne L. Kalleberg
- Confronting poverty and declining opportunity
- Connecting the dots / by David K. Shipler
- Economic mobility in the United States: how much is there and why does it matter? / by Jared Bernstein
- The vanishing middle class / by Elizabeth Warren
- The forces undermining the American dream
- The great doubling: the challenge of the new global labor market / by Richard B. Freeman
- The risky outlook for middle-class America / by Jacob S. Hacker
- Single mothers, fragile families / by Sara McLanahan
- A new agenda for America's ghetto poor / by William Julius Wilson
- Spurring better jobs and creating higher incomes
- Up and out: when the working poor are poor no more / by Katherine S. Newman
- The earned income tax credit / by John Karl Scholz
- Making work pay / by Beth Shulman
- Education and training for less affluent Americans in the new economy / by Harry J. Holzer
- Jobs for life / by David Spickard
- Sharing the prosperity: asset building
- Reducing wealth disparities through asset ownership / by Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro
- Banking the poor: overcoming the financial services mismatch / by Michael S. Barr
- Assets for all: toward universal, progressive, lifelong accounts / by Michael Sherraden
- Making saving easier: the automatic 401(k) and automatic individual retirement account (IRA) / by Peter Orszag
- An affordable homeownership strategy that promotes savings rather than risk / by Michael A. Stegman
- Making homeownership a reality by believing in working-class families / by Martin Eakes
- The role of the entrepreneur in combating poverty / by Secretary Jack F. Kemp
- Strengthening family and community
- Why we should be concerned about young, less educated, black men / by Ronald B. Mincy and Hillard Pouncy
- A hopeful future: the pathway to helping teens avoid pregnancy and too-soon parenthood / by Carol Mendez Cassell
- Public schools: building capacity for hope and opportunity / by Dennis K. Orthner
- Getting parents and community into the school reform act / by Hugh B. Price
- Top down meets bottom up: local job creation in rural America / by Anita Brown-Graham
- Strengthening the rural community / by Ruston Seaman and Michael Ferber
- Fighting poverty with equitable development / by Angela Glover Blackwell
- Ending poverty in America / by Senator John Edwards
- About the editors
- About the contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
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- "Published in conjunction with the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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