| Description |
1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A third way perspective -- Employment growth: it's strengths and limitations -- Evaluating targeted policies -- Combating racial earnings disparities -- Combating gender earnings disparities -- Refocusing community college programs -- Strengthening partnerships -- Revising government tax policies -- Redirecting immigration policies -- Recasting housing subsidies -- The politics of reform. |
| Summary |
Even as the US political system remains deeply divided between right and left, there is a clear yearning for a more moderate third way that navigates an intermediate position to address the most pressing issues facing the United States today. Moving Working Families Forward points to a Third Way between liberals and conservatives, combining a commitment to government expenditures that enhance the incomes of working families while recognizing that concerns for program effectiveness, individual responsibility, and underutilization of market incentives are justified. While conservatives often pro. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Working class families -- Government policy -- United States.
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Working class families. |
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Government policy. |
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United States. |
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Working poor -- Government policy -- United States.
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Working poor -- Government policy. |
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Working poor. |
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United States -- Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
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United States -- Social policy.
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Social policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lerman, Robert I.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cherry, Robert D., 1944- Moving working families forward. New York : New York University Press, ©2011 9780814717189 (DLC) 2011018448 (OCoLC)722452199 |
| ISBN |
9780814772997 (electronic book) |
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0814772994 (electronic book) |
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9780814769904 (electronic book) |
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081476990X (electronic book) |
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9780814717189 |
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0814717187 |
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9780814790007 |
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0814790003 |
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