Shared Prosperity in America's Communities /

Shared Prosperity in America's Communities / / ed. by Susan M. Wachter, Lei Ding.

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While the nation's GDP has doubled in the last thirty years, significant increases in family income have been restricted to a small subset of the American population. This disjunct between national economic growth and stagnating incomes in all but the very top tier of the population corresponds...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Anglum, J. Cameron,
Bartik, Timothy J.,
Benner, Chris,
Blackwell, Angela Glover,
Carnevale, Anthony P.,
Chetty, Raj,
Diamond, Rebecca,
Jargowsky, Paul A.,
Karp, David N.,
Kneebone, Elizabeth,
Massey, Douglas S.,
Nowak, Jeremy,
Pastor, Manuel,
Rubin, Victor,
Schildt, Chris,
Smith, Nicole,
Turner, Margery Austin,
Wood, Zachary D.,
HerausgeberIn:
Ding, Lei,
Wachter, Susan M.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:The City in the Twenty-First Century
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 18 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Social and Economic Mobility in America's Communities
  • Chapter 1. Socioeconomic Mobility in the United States: New Evidence and Policy Lessons
  • Chapter 2. Neighborhoods and Segregation
  • Chapter 3. The Changing Geography of Disadvantage
  • Chapter 4. U.S. Workers' Diverging Locations: Causes and in Inequality Consequences
  • Part II. How to Encourage Growth and Expand Opportunity
  • Chapter 5. Building Shared Prosperity Through Place- Conscious Strategies That Reweave the Goals of Fair Housing and Community Development
  • Chapter 6. Confronting the Legacy of American Apartheid
  • Chapter 7. Expanding Educational Opportunity in Urban School Districts
  • Chapter 8. Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's Jobs
  • Chapter 9. Labor-Demand-Side Economic Development Incentives and Urban Opportunity
  • Part III. Shared Prosperity: Perspectives on Equitable and Inclusive Growth
  • Chapter 10. Equitable and Inclusive Growth Strategies for American Cities
  • Chapter 11. The Fragility of Growth in a Post-Industrial City
  • Chapter 12. Fostering an Inclusive Metropolis: Equity, Growth, and Community
  • Notes
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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