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The Shriver report : a woman's nation pushes back from the brink /
Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. 1 in 3 Americans today live in poverty or teeter on the brink. 70 million...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York :
RosettaBooks,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Julie's Story; Preface; By Neera Tanden; PART I: HOW WE GOT HERE; POWER; Powerful and Powerless; By Maria Shriver; 'When We Were 9, We Were Honest' By Carol Gilligan, Ph.D.; Gender Equality Is a Myth! By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter; Time to Wake Up: Stop Blaming Poverty on the Poor By Barbara Ehrenreich; Are Women Devalued by Religions? By Sister Joan Chittister; THE WORKPLACE; A Woman's Place Is in the Middle Class; By Heather Boushey; The Gender Wage Gap: A Civil Rights Issue for Our Time By Maya Harris; Making the Care Economy a Caring Economy By Ai-jen Poo
- Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Broke By Danielle Moodie-MillsThe Changing Face of American Women By Angela Glover Blackwell; Empowering Latinas By Eva Longoria; THE FAMILY; Marriage, Motherhood, and Men; By Ann O'Leary; America's Working Single Mothers: An Appreciation By LeBron James; To the Brink and Back By Catherine Emmanuelle; Marriage and Children: Another View By Ron Haskins; What About the Fathers? By Dr. Kathryn Edin; A Call to Men: Ending Men's Violence Against Women By Tony Porter; Women and Poverty: The Role of Lawyers and Family Law By John Bouman and Wendy Pollack
- Evolution of the Modern American Family By Stephanie CoontzEDUCATION; A 21st-Century Education for All Women; By Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale and Dr. Nicole Smith; Turning Poverty Around: Training Parents to Help Their Kids By Jennifer Garner; Living the Head Start Dream By Almeta Keys; Preschool for All: The Path to America's Middle-Class Promise By Secretary Arne Duncan and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Afterschool Programs: Investing in Our Cities by Investing in Our Kids By Mayor Betsy Price; Higher Education: Interrupting the Cycle of Poverty By Eduardo J. Padrón, Ph.D.; Nikki's Story
- PART II: WHY WE MUST PUSH BACKThe Consequences of Living on the Brink; The Chronic Stress of Poverty: Toxic to Children By Nadine Burke Harris, M.D.; The Trap: Mental Illness and Women in Poverty By Ron Manderscheid, Ph. D.; Armed and Vulnerable: Women in the U.S. Military By Sonya Borrero, M.D.; Human Trafficking and Slavery in the United States: 'You Don't See the Chains' By Jada Pinkett Smith; Britani's Story; PART III: THE NATION REIMAGINED; A New America that Cares; By Anne-Marie Slaughter; America's Promise, One Woman at a Time By Marianne Cooper, Ph. D.; PUBLIC SOLUTIONS
- Putting Women at the Center of PolicymakingBy Melissa Boteach and Shawn Fremstad, and introducing the Shriver Corps; We Have Blown a Huge Hole in Our Safety Net By Peter Edelman; The Circle of Protection: Balancing the Budget Does Not Require Burdening the Poor By Leith Anderson; From VISTA Corps to Shriver Corps: Providing Solutions for 50 Years By Shirley Sagawa; A Hand Up, Not a Handout By Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter; On the Brink with a Disabled Child By Katie Bentley; PRIVATE SOLUTIONS; What If Employers Put Women at the Center of Their Workplace Policies?