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Publisher's description -- Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets--primarily for the pleasure of their company. Children become the workers and taxpayers of the next generation, and "investments" in them offer a significant payback to other participants in the economy. Yet parents, especially mothers, pay most of the costs. The high price of childrearing...
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Examines the position of women in the U.S. economy and analyses patterns of poverty in relation to different types of families. Discusses why women fare worse than men in employment and earnings and highlights the ineffectiveness of U.S. policies and welfare reform programmes in eliminating poverty. Puts forward alternative welfare reform proposals and suggests measures aimed at establishing women's economic equality.
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Dismantling dozens of firmly-held beliefs, Cox and Alm show that: "Real income" is an unreliable measure of living standards. Real wealth - the lifestyle Americans routinely enjoy - has skyrocketed; the poor have not gotten poorer. In fact, the average family living below the poverty line today is doing as well or better, in terms of material possessions, as middle-class families in 1971; corporate downsizing creates jobs in the long run; income mobility...
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"Skocpol suggests new ways to think about social policy, targeting not merely those at the extremes of our society but reinvigorating the strength, dignity, and political participation of the working men and women who are the foundation of the American family and the American economy. The resulting intergenerational compact raises exciting new goals for democracy in the coming century."--Jacket.
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