What is included with this book?
Confronting poverty and declining opportunity | |
Connecting the dots | p. 13 |
Economic mobility in the United States : how much is there and why does it matter? | p. 23 |
The vanishing middle class | p. 38 |
The forces undermining the American dream | |
The great doubling : the challenge of the new global labor market | p. 55 |
The risky outlook for middle-class America | p. 66 |
Single mothers, fragile families | p. 77 |
A new agenda for America's ghetto poor | p. 88 |
Spurring better jobs and creating higher incomes | |
Up and out : when the working poor are poor no more | p. 101 |
The earned income tax credit | p. 107 |
Making work pay | p. 114 |
Education and training for less affluent Americans in the new economy | p. 125 |
Jobs for life | p. 131 |
Sharing the prosperity through asset building | |
Reducing wealth disparities through asset ownership | p. 139 |
Banking the poor : overcoming the financial services mismatch | p. 144 |
Assets for all : toward universal, progressive, lifelong accounts | p. 151 |
Making saving easier : the automatic 401(k) and automatic individual retirement account (IRA) | p. 158 |
An affordable homeownership strategy that promotes savings rather than risk | p. 165 |
Making homeownership a reality by believing in working-class families | p. 174 |
The role of the entrepreneur in combating poverty | p. 179 |
Strengthening family and community | |
Why we should be concerned about young, less educated, black men | p. 191 |
A hopeful future : the pathway to helping teens avoid pregnancy and too-soon parenthood | p. 205 |
Public schools : building capacity for hope and opportunity | p. 218 |
Getting parents and community into the school reform act | p. 224 |
Top-down meets bottom-up : local job creation in rural America | p. 230 |
Strengthening the rural community | p. 235 |
Fighting poverty with equitable development | p. 244 |
Conclusion : ending poverty in America | p. 256 |
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