The American Dream Revisited
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Author | : Gary Sirak |
Publisher | : Morgan James Publishing |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2017-01-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1630479659 |
True stories that reveal why hard work and determination still count—and how the promise of America is still very much alive. The book is a collection of compelling stories from people that overcame a variety of adversities to achieve their American Dream. Featuring accounts of people facing a wide variety of challenges and coming from a wide variety of backgrounds, this book will turn skeptics into believers by way of everyday life examples. It instills inspiration and hope—reminding us that no matter the obstacles, this is still the land of opportunity.
Author | : Helen Claire Duprey Bullock |
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Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Germans |
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Author | : Ingrid Ellen |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 643 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231545045 |
A half century after the Fair Housing Act, despite ongoing transformations of the geography of privilege and poverty, residential segregation by race and income continues to shape urban and suburban neighborhoods in the United States. Why do people live where they do? What explains segregation’s persistence? And why is addressing segregation so complicated? The Dream Revisited brings together a range of expert viewpoints on the causes and consequences of the nation’s separate and unequal living patterns. Leading scholars and practitioners, including civil rights advocates, affordable housing developers, elected officials, and fair housing lawyers, discuss the nature of and policy responses to residential segregation. Essays scrutinize the factors that sustain segregation, including persistent barriers to mobility and complex neighborhood preferences, and its consequences from health to home finance and from policing to politics. They debate how actively and in what ways the government should intervene in housing markets to foster integration. The book features timely analyses of issues such as school integration, mixed income housing, and responses to gentrification from a diversity of viewpoints. A probing examination of a deeply rooted problem, The Dream Revisited offers pressing insights into the changing face of urban inequality.
Author | : Tymoteusz Chajdas |
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Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2013 |
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Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Poor |
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Author | : William Ophuls |
Publisher | : W H Freeman & Company |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Environmental policy. |
ISBN | : 9780716723134 |
Author | : Joshua Preiss |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-12-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 100033385X |
This is a book about the American Dream: how to understand this central principle of American public philosophy, the ways in which it is threatened by a number of winner-take-all economic trends, and how to make it a reality for workers and their families in the 21st century. Integrating political philosophy and the history of political thought with recent work in economics, political science, and sociology, this book calls for renewed political and policy commitment to “just work.” Such a commitment is essential to combat the negative moral externalities of an economy where the fruits of growth are increasingly claimed by a relatively small portion of the population: slower growth, rising inequality, declining absolute mobility, dying communities, the erosion of social solidarity, lack of faith in political leaders and institutions, exploding debt, ethnic and nationalist backlash, widespread hopelessness, and the rapid rise in what economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case call deaths of despair. Covid-19 threatens to pour gasoline on these winner-take-all fires, further concentrating economic and political power in the hands of those best suited to withstand (and even profit from) the pandemic-driven economic crisis. In this book, the author provides a model for understanding the American Dream and making it a reality in a post-Covid-19 economy. A tour de force, this book is essential reading for scholars and researchers of political philosophy, political economy, political theory, and economics, as well as for the layperson trying to make sense of the post-pandemic world.
Author | : Douglas S. Kelbaugh |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-07-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0295997516 |
Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan and design the built environment. This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.
Author | : Steven Brint |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0195048164 |
A history of community colleges in America; examines the shift of emphasis from liberal-arts transfer courses to terminal vocational programs and the implications of this for upward mobility.
Author | : Steve Viscelli |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520962710 |
Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.