Format:
Online-Ressource (209 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781595589361
Content:
Income disparities in our wealthy nation are now wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today's economy has stultified wage growth for half of America's workers-with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color-while bestowing billions on those at the top.In this ?accessible and inspiring analysis" (Angela Glover Blackwell), lifelong anti?poverty advocate Peter Edelman assesses how the United States can have such an outsized number of unemployed and working poor despite important policy gains. He delves into what is happening to the peopl
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Contents; Introduction to the Paperback Edition; 1. A Snapshot of Our Current Mess; 2. What We Have Accomplished; 3. Why Are We Stuck?; 4. Jobs: The Economy and Public Policy Go South (for Most of Us); 5. Deep Poverty: A Gigantic Hole in the Safety Net; 6. Concentrated Poverty: "The Abandoned"; 7. Young People: Improving the Odds; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
9781595589576
Additional Edition:
9781595589361
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe So Rich, So Poor : Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America
Language:
English
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