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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The City in the Twenty-First CenturyPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 18 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812247855
  • 9780812292404
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.973 23
LOC classification:
  • HC106.84 .S53 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 with increasing economic inequality and a lack of social and economic mobility. As a consequence, neighborhoods and metropolitan areas have become more polarized. Stark geographic differences in levels of poverty, income, health outcomes, job opportunities, lifetime earning potential, and educational attainment highlight the degree to which place matters in terms of social and economic opportunity.Shared Prosperity in America's Communities examines this place-based disparity of opportunity and suggests what can be done to ensure that the benefits of economic growth are widely shared. Contributors' essays explore social and economic mobility throughout the country to illuminate the changing geography of inequality, offer a portfolio of strategies to address the challenges of place-based inequality, and show how communities across the nation are implementing change and building a future of shared prosperity. Approaching the problem from the vantage point of economics, sociology, and public policy, Shared Prosperity in America's Communities offers a timely analysis of the country's growing socioeconomic and geographic division and shows how communities can respond to the challenge of economic inequality to build a nation of opportunity for all.Contributors: J. Cameron Anglum, Timothy J. Bartik, Chris Benner, Angela Glover Blackwell, Anthony P. Carnevale, Raj Chetty, Rebecca Diamond, Lei Ding, Paul A. Jargowsky, David N. Karp, Elizabeth Kneebone, Douglas S. Massey, Jeremy Nowak, Manuel Pastor, Victor Rubin, Chris Schildt, Nicole Smith, Margery Austin Turner, Susan M. Wachter, Zachary D. Wood.
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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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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 with increasing economic inequality and a lack of social and economic mobility. As a consequence, neighborhoods and metropolitan areas have become more polarized. Stark geographic differences in levels of poverty, income, health outcomes, job opportunities, lifetime earning potential, and educational attainment highlight the degree to which place matters in terms of social and economic opportunity.Shared Prosperity in America's Communities examines this place-based disparity of opportunity and suggests what can be done to ensure that the benefits of economic growth are widely shared. Contributors' essays explore social and economic mobility throughout the country to illuminate the changing geography of inequality, offer a portfolio of strategies to address the challenges of place-based inequality, and show how communities across the nation are implementing change and building a future of shared prosperity. Approaching the problem from the vantage point of economics, sociology, and public policy, Shared Prosperity in America's Communities offers a timely analysis of the country's growing socioeconomic and geographic division and shows how communities can respond to the challenge of economic inequality to build a nation of opportunity for all.Contributors: J. Cameron Anglum, Timothy J. Bartik, Chris Benner, Angela Glover Blackwell, Anthony P. Carnevale, Raj Chetty, Rebecca Diamond, Lei Ding, Paul A. Jargowsky, David N. Karp, Elizabeth Kneebone, Douglas S. Massey, Jeremy Nowak, Manuel Pastor, Victor Rubin, Chris Schildt, Nicole Smith, Margery Austin Turner, Susan M. Wachter, Zachary D. Wood.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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