The free-market family how the market crushed the American dream (and how it can be restored)

"US families have been pushed to the wall. At the bottom of the economic ladder, poor and working-class adults aren't forming stable relationships and can't give their kids the start they need because of low wages and uncertain job prospects. Toward the top, professional parents'...

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1. Verfasser: Eichner, Maxine (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2020]
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • What went wrong with the American dream?
  • America's free-market family policy
  • The over worked American parent
  • The economics of disconnected adults and unstable families
  • How we fail our children: Part I-The caretaking young children need
  • How we fail our children: Part II-Young children from poor and low-income families
  • Outcomes for children in the free-market family system
  • Insulating families from market forces-The rise of the welfare state
  • The death of the welfare state and the rise of free-market family policy
  • What's an economy for?
  • Toward thriving families