The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy
In the opening pages of this powerful examination of American politics, Theda Skocpol reveals a curious pattern: Our politicians argue over programs for the very poor or tax cuts for the very rich, and they worry over the precarious security of our longer-living grandparents and the educational neglect and corresponding bleak future of our children. But, with the spotlight on the youngest, the oldest, the richest, and the poorest, rarely do we find policies concerned with average working men and women of modest means, those the author terms the missing middle.Skocpol draws us into the history of this disturbing trend and reveals t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-32113-5
- EAN: 9780393321135
- Produktnummer: 9343782
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 207 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.2 cm x D1.7 cm 262 g
- Gewicht: 262
Über den Autor
Theda Skocpol is professor of government and sociology at Harvard University and the author of Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government.
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