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Title

Ending poverty in America : how to restore the American dream / edited by John Edwards, Marion Crain, and Arne L. Kalleberg.

Publication

New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Edwards, John, 1953 June 10-
• Crain, Marion G.
• Kalleberg, Arne L.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity.

Description

x, 288 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Poverty > United States
• United States > Economic policy > 2001-2009

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Confronting poverty and declining opportunity -- 1. Connecting the dots / David K. Shipler -- 2. Economic mobility in the United States : how much is there and why does it matter? / Jared Bernstein -- 3. The vanishing middle class / Elizabeth Warren -- Pt. 2. The forces undermining the American dream -- 4. The great doubling : the challenge of the new global labor market / Richard B. Freeman -- 5. The risky outlook for middle-class America / Jacob S. Hacker -- 6. Single mothers, fragile families / Sara McLanaban -- 7. A new agenda for America's ghetto poor / William Julius Wilson -- Pt. 3. Spurring better jobs and creating higher incomes -- 8. Up and out : when the working poor are poor no more / Katherine S. Newman -- The earned income tax credit / John Karl Scholz -- 9. Making work pay / Beth Shulman -- 10. Education and training for less affluent Americans in the new economy / Harry J. Holzer -- Jobs for life / David Spickard -- Pt. 4. Sharing the prosperity through asset building -- 11. Reducing wealth disparities through asset ownership / Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro -- Banking the poor : overcoming the financial services mismatch / Michael S. Barr -- 12. 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 -- 13. 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 -- 14. The role of the entrepreneur in combating poverty / Jack F. Kemp -- Pt. 5. Strengthening family and community -- 15. Why we should be concerned about young, less educated, black men / Ronald B. Mincy and Hillard Pouncy -- 16. A hopeful future : the pathway to helping teens avoid pregnancy and too-soon parenthood / Carol Mendez Cassell -- 17. Public schools : building capacity for hope and opportunity / Dennis K. Orthner -- Getting parents and community into the school reform act / Hugh B. Price -- 18. Top-down meets bottom-up : local job creation in rural America / Anita Brown-Graham -- Strengthening the rural community / Ruston Seaman and Michael Ferber -- 19. Fighting poverty with equitable development / Angela Glover Blackwell -- Conclusion : ending poverty in America / John Edwards.

ISBN

• 9781595581761 (hc.)
• 1595581766 (hc.)

LCCN

2007002126

OCLC

• ocm79256821
• 79256821
• SCSB-5931385

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries