Offers an informed analysis of how the United States can be so wealthy yet have an outsized number of unemployed and working poor
"Income disparities in our wealthy nation are now wider than at any point since the Great Depression. IN 2010, the average compensation for CEOs on the S&P 500 was over $11 million, while a quarter of all jobs in the country paid less than the poverty line--$22,000 for a family …
Why are nearly 50 million people in the richest nation in the world counted as poor and what do we need to do to change that? Peter Edelman, once a top aide to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a lifelong advocate on these issues, looks at the economic and political history of the p…
Offers an informed analysis of how the United States can be so wealthy yet have an out sized number of unemployed and working poor. Income disparities in our wealthy nation are now wider than at any point since the Great Depression. In 2010, the average compensation for CEOs on…
Describes the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. This title also describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waitin…
This text is about the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although set in Buenos Aires, it describes a range of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies…
This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although set in Buenos Aires, Auyero describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare …
"Expelling the Poor examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially deportation policy. Based on an analysis of immigration policies in major American coastal states, including New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana, and Calif…
"Expelling the Poor examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially deportation policy. Based on an analysis of immigration policies in major American coastal states, including New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana, and Calif…
"Expelling the Poor examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially deportation policy. Based on an analysis of immigration policies in major American coastal states, including New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana, and Calif…
Expelling the poor' examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially deportation policy. Based on an analysis of immigration policies in major American coastal states, including New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana, and Calif…
"Shovelling Out" : Ireland and the Emigration of the Poor -- Problems of Irish Poverty : The Rise of State Control on the Atlantic Seaboard -- Different Paths : The Development of Immigration Policy in Antebellum Coastal States -- Radical Nativism : The Know Nothing Movement and…