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Author Iversen, Roberta Rehner.

Title Jobs aren't enough : toward a new economic mobility for low-income families / Roberta Rehner Iversen, Annie Laurie Armstrong
Published Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation
Contents Are jobs enough for economic mobility? -- From the old to the new economic mobility -- The parents: their backgrounds, lives, and locations -- The children: their lives and worlds -- Workforce development: systems and networks -- Yesterday's firms and today's families: connects and disconnects with Michele Belliveau -- Children's schools, parents' work and policy: alignment and misalignment -- Jobs aren't enough: toward an agenda for family economic mobility
Summary Job opportunity is a myth for 25% of U.S. wage earners
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index
Notes English
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Subject Working class -- United States.
Poor families -- United States.
City dwellers -- United States.
Social mobility -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
City dwellers
Poor families
Social mobility
Social policy
Working class
SUBJECT United States -- Social policy -- 1993- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006374
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Armstrong, Annie Laurie, 1950-
LC no. 2005046668
ISBN 9781592133574
1592133576
1281094048
9781281094049
9786611094041
6611094040