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Moving working families forward : third way policies that can work / Robert Cherry with Robert Lerman.
LIBRA HD8072.5 .C474 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cherry, Robert D., 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class families--Government policy--United States.
- Working class families.
- Working poor--Government policy--United States.
- Working poor.
- Working poor--Government policy.
- Government policy.
- United States--Economic policy.
- United States.
- Economic policy.
- United States--Social policy.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Even as our 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. Robert Cherry and Robert Lerman provide the context to understand the distinctive qualities of Third Way policies, focusing on seven areas that substantially affect working families: immigration, race and gender earnings disparities, education, housing, strengthening partnerships, and federal taxes. Balancing empirical studies with voices of working class people, they offer an important perspective on how public policies should be changed. A timely approach, Moving Working Families Forward makes policy recommendations that are both practical and transformative. Book jacket.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814717189
- 0814717187
- 9780814790007
- 0814790003
- OCLC:
- 722452199
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