Ending poverty in America how to restore the American dream
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Ending poverty in America : |b how to restore the American dream / |c edited by Senator John Edwards, Marion Crain, and Arne L. Kalleberg. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b New Press, |c c2007. | ||
| 300 | |a 288 p. : |c 24 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a "Published in conjunction with the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill." | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Poverty |z United States. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Economic policy |y 2001-2009. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Edwards, John, |d 1953 June 10- | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Crain, Marion G. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Kalleberg, Arne L. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |b Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity. | |
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