Katherine S. Newman is James B. Knapp Dean of the Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Among her many books are Falling From Grace, No Shame in My Game, Rampage and The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America. Rourke L. O’Brien is a graduate student in sociology and social policy at Princeton University and a non-resident fellow of the New America Foundation.
12 Ebooks por Katherine S. Newman
Rourke O’Brien & Katherine S. Newman: Taxing the Poor
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even …
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Katherine S. Newman & Elisabeth S. Jacobs: Who Cares?
Why major changes to America’s social safety net have always required bold presidential leadership Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularl …
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€41.99
Miguel Angel Centeno & Katherine S. Newman: Discrimination in an Unequal World
Discrimination in an Unequal World explores the relationship between discrimination and inequality by comparing and examining what effect globalization has had on discrimination. Investigating a broa …
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€33.69
Paul Attewell & Katherine S. Newman: Growing Gaps
The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world. Educational expansion is desirable for a country’s economy, …
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€35.30
Paul Attewell & Katherine S. Newman: Growing Gaps
The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world. Educational expansion is desirable for a country’s economy, …
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€34.23
Marion Crain & John Edwards: Ending Poverty in America
An ‘;engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles’ from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly). Can the wealthiest nation in the world do an …
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€21.86
Elisabeth S. Jacobs & Katherine S. Newman: Moving the Needle
This timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America’s most vulnerable households Most research on poverty focuses on the damage c …
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€29.99
Katherine S. Newman: Falling from Grace
Over the last three decades, millions of people have slipped through a loophole in the American dream and become downwardly mobile as a result of downsizing, plant closings, mergers, and divorce: the …
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€49.99
Katherine S. Newman & Hella Winston: Reskilling America
From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation’s long-neglected system of vocational trainin …
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