An edition of Ending poverty in America: how to restore the American dream
(2007)
Ending poverty in America
how to restore the American dream
by Marion Crain, Arne L. Kalleberg, and Edwards, John
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Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream
2011, New Press, The
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Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream
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Ending poverty in America: how to restore the American dream
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Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream
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Table of Contents
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
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Edition Notes
"Published in conjunction with the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."
Includes bibliographical references and index
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