Creating an opportunity society
By: Ron Haskins, Isabel Sawhill
Contributors: Sawhill, Isabel V.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780815703228
Description: "Presents facts and factors that contribute to economic opportunity, looking at how poor, middle class, and rich have fared in recent decades. Proposes a cost-effective agenda for increasing opportunity, consistent with American values, and focuses on improving lives of the young and disadvantaged, emphasizing individual responsibility as indispensable for success"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-335) and index.