Summary
Offers an informed analysis of how the United States can be so wealthy yet have an outsized number of unemployed and working poor. Full description
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- A snapshot of our current mess
- What we have accomplished
- Why are we stuck?
- Jobs : the economy and public policy go south (for most of us)
- Deep poverty : a gigantic hole in the safety net
- Concentrated poverty : "the abandoned"
- Young people : improving the odds
- Conclusion.