So rich, so poor why it's so hard to end poverty in America
Offers an informed analysis of how the United States can be so wealthy yet have an outsized number of unemployed and working poor.
| Main Author: | Edelman, Peter B. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- A snapshot of our current mess
- What we have accomplished
- Why are we stuck?
- Jobs : the economy and public policy go south (for most of us)
- Deep poverty : a gigantic hole in the safety net
- Concentrated poverty : "the abandoned"
- Young people : improving the odds
- Conclusion.