Ending poverty in America
Subtitle: how to restore the American dream
By: edited by John Edwards, Marion Crain, and Arne L. Kalleberg
Contributors: Edwards, John, 1953 June 10-; Crain, Marion G; Kalleberg, Arne L; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Norton
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781595581761
Subjects: Poverty -- United States; United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Marion Crain and Arne L. Kalleberg; title: Confronting poverty and declining opportunity; title: Connecting the dots / by David K. Shipler; title: Economic mobility in the United States: how much is there and why does it matter? / by Jared Bernstein; title: The vanishing middle class / by Elizabeth Warren; title: The forces undermining the American dream; title: The great doubling: the challenge of the new global labor market / by Richard B. Freeman; title: The risky outlook for middle-class America / by Jacob S. Hacker; title: Single mothers, fragile families / by Sara McLanahan; title: A new agenda for America's ghetto poor / by William Julius Wilson; title: Spurring better jobs and creating higher incomes; title: Up and out: when the working poor are poor no more / by Katherine S. Newman; title: The earned income tax credit / by John Karl Scholz; title: Making work pay / by Beth Shulman; title: Education and training for less affluent Americans in the new economy / by Harry J. Holzer; title: Jobs for life / by David Spickard; title: Sharing the prosperity: asset building; title: Reducing wealth disparities through asset ownership / by Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro; title: Banking the poor: overcoming the financial services mismatch / by Michael S. Barr; title: Assets for all: toward universal, progressive, lifelong accounts / by Michael Sherraden; title: Making saving easier: the automatic 401(k) and automatic individual retirement account (IRA) / by Peter Orszag; title: An affordable homeownership strategy that promotes savings rather than risk / by Michael A. Stegman; title: Making homeownership a reality by believing in working-class families / by Martin Eakes; title: The role of the entrepreneur in combating poverty / by Secretary Jack F. Kemp; title: Strengthening family and community; title: Why we should be concerned about young, less educated, black men / by Ronald B. Mincy and Hillard Pouncy; title: A hopeful future: the pathway to helping teens avoid pregnancy and too-soon parenthood / by Carol Mendez Cassell; title: Public schools: building capacity for hope and opportunity / by Dennis K. Orthner; title: Getting parents and community into the school reform act / by Hugh B. Price; title: Top down meets bottom up: local job creation in rural America / by Anita Brown-Graham; title: Strengthening the rural community / by Ruston Seaman and Michael Ferber; title: Fighting poverty with equitable development / by Angela Glover Blackwell; title: Ending poverty in America / by Senator John Edwards; title: About the editors; title: About the contributors; title: Index