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The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy
Theda Skocpol
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Description for The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy
Paperback. An eye-opening look at how America's social policy has been hijacked by a rhetoric of extremes. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; JKSB; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780393321135
SKU
V9780393321135
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About Theda Skocpol
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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