Description
Book SynopsisExamines the obstacles to economic mobility for low- and increasingly middle-income families
Trade Review"This book is highly recommended, and its in-depth treatment of the historical and social context of concentrated poverty and policy alternatives would make it particularly useful in a graduate seminar...The editors have done a remarkable job of putting together a volume in which each chapter seems to build on the examples and policy recommendations of the others. Rather than being an assortment of articles on a theme, the chapters together create a 'collective wisdom' of community economic development." -Journal of American Ethnic History
Table of Contents1: Are Jobs Enough for Economic Mobility?; 2: From the Old to the New Economic Mobility; 3: The Parents: Their Backgrounds, Lives and Locations; 4: The Children: Their Lives and Worlds; 5: Workforce Development: Systems and Networks; 6: Yesterday's Firms and Today's Families: Connects and Disconnects with Michelle Belliveau; 7: Children's Schools, Parents' Work and Policy: Alignment and Misalignment; 8: Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward an Agenda for Family Economic Mobility
