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Author : Rolf Goetze
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Housing policy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037527004
Author : G. Web Ross,Howard Klausner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American Dream
ISBN : LCCN:2009928666
Author : Patrick D. Clarke
Publisher : Bookstand Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1589098005
As of this writing it's now two-plus years and counting since America and the entire world were plunged into a global recession by an unregulated rogue financial system. The American Dream, once so prevalent and attainable with hard work, has been pushed aside and replaced with uncertainty and many unanswered questions. Schools are laying off teachers, firehouses are shutting doors, and hospitals are closing and are laying off nurses. Overall, America's quality of life has begun to resemble that of a Third World nation. In response, the American public is crying out for rapid changes, and a chance to recover that which has been lost. Is the The American Dream over? Can we do something to rescue it? To whom can we turn for help when our elected officials provide us with weak and ineffectual leadership? Our elected officials have failed to look for ideas that could rescue us from the brink of disaster. Instead, they continue to fight and backstab each other while the suffering American public is desperate for leadership that can provide answers. Out of the lower rungs of society I, Patrick D. Clarke, a Bronx Dummy, have come bringing ideas that can help revolutionize and stimulate our economy. Read on for answers that might just surprise you. My book puts forth answers to many questions in areas that have been hindering America from moving forward and maintaining our lead as innovators and leaders the world looks up to for guidance. At this pivotal time in history it is imperative that we act now and not wait for the 25th hour to do something that can help. In my book I present ideas we all can use to fight waste throughout the government and turn our nation around. So, if you are interested in being empowered and letting your voices be heard, then my book is a must-read.
Author : Robert C. Hauhart,Mitja Sardoč
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000385526
What do we mean by the American dream? Can we define it? Or does any discussion of the phrase end inconclusively, the solid turned liquid—like ice melting? Do we know whether the American dream motivates and inspires or, alternately, obscures and deceives? The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream offers distinctive, authoritative, original essays by well-known scholars that address the social, economic, historical, philosophic, legal, and cultural dimensions of the American dream for the twenty-first century. The American dream, first discussed and defined in print by James Truslow Adams’s The Epic of America (1931), has become nearly synonymous with being American. Adams’s definition, although known to scholars, is often lost in our ubiquitous use of the term. When used today, the iconic phrase seems to encapsulate every fashion, fad, trend, association, or image the user identifies with the United States or American life. The American dream’s ubiquity, though, argues eloquently for a deeper understanding of its heritage, its implications, and its impact—to be found in this first research handbook ever published on the topic.
Author : Jeanne Allen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781796076073
Inspired by love of country, her Italian heritage, and this nation’s ongoing quest to raise its children to aspire and achieve their greatest dreams, Jeanne Allen wrote An Unfinished Journey, which uniquely challenges us to think big about the education of our youth. The author—a well-known pioneer and veteran of education policy, politics, and culture—provides a compendium of powerful yet brief essays that will have parents, policy makers, and the general public both laughing and crying at the way the nation’s education institutions have developed or mishandled all that it takes to help children achieve their greatest potential. From musings on Columbus Day to how kids behave in school and from the role of parents to politicians, this book is a uniquely informative and instructive firsthand account of the people, policies, and players that have shaped American education and why it matters. Combining a fascinating personal story with political acumen from more than thirty years in the arena, Allen paves the road to finishing the journey to the American dream.
Author : Joel Best
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520296343
Popular hazards or, how we insist similar social problems are different -- American nightmares or, why sociologists hate the American dream / written with David Schweingruber -- Evaluating predictions or, how to compare the Maya calendar, Social Security, and climate change -- Future talk or, how slippery slopes shape concern -- Memories as problems or, how to reconsider Confederate flags and other symbols of the past /written with Lawrence T. Nichols -- Economicization or, why economists get more respect than sociologists -- Afterword : the future of American nightmares
Author : Michael Quinlan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1466473851
What happened to the American Dream? Yesterday's age of abundance and prosperity has given way to today's scarcity and decline. Too many voters, uninformed about the issues or discouraged by polarized politics, have withdrawn from the discussion entirely, believing that there's nothing they can do to create change. Michael J. Quinlan, international business executive, former U.S. Navy officer, and life-long student of history, counters this with his own refreshingly non-partisan perspective. In plain language, he examines the major factors that helped take America to the top of the world in the 20th century and describes the specific global issues that jeopardize our position right now. Rescuing the American Dream lays out clear, tractable pathways toward solutions, with opportunities that start with each of us. Quinlan uses his worldwide perspective on history, politics, and technology to call on each of us to do our jobs as Americans, to get involved in the political sphere and to demand that our leaders stop making decisions based on special interests or party line. Quinlan's book gives us hope.
Author : Patricia C. Gandara,Frances Contreras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674047051
Drawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation's largest and most rapidly growing minority group.
Author : Richard G. Clemens
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Financial security
ISBN : 9781604624748
John F. Kennedy said, 'Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.' In that spirit, Richard G. Clemens wrote Rescuing America: The Bipartisan Path, which discusses a wide range of domestic policy issues facing the federal government in a nonpartisan way. These issues include: the demographic trends resulting from the rapidly growing aged population, Social Security, Medicare, the US trade deficit, the Iraq war, the mushrooming national debt, and tax and fiscal policy. Clemens identifies leaders of both political parties in Congress who are striving to follow the bipartisan path to find solutions. With the national debt rising at the rate of $40 million each hour, Rescuing America is a compelling read for anyone who is concerned about the unsustainable trajectory of mounting federal spending and the potential financial catastrophe that our nation faces in the years ahead."
Author : Hedrick Smith
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812982053
Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smith takes us across America to show how seismic changes, sparked by a sequence of landmark political and economic decisions, have transformed America. As only a veteran reporter can, Smith fits the puzzle together, starting with Lewis Powell’s provocative memo that triggered a political rebellion that dramatically altered the landscape of power from then until today. This is a book full of surprises and revelations—the accidental beginnings of the 401(k) plan, with disastrous economic consequences for many; the major policy changes that began under Jimmy Carter; how the New Economy disrupted America’s engine of shared prosperity, the “virtuous circle” of growth, and how America lost the title of “Land of Opportunity.” Smith documents the transfer of $6 trillion in middle-class wealth from homeowners to banks even before the housing boom went bust, and how the U.S. policy tilt favoring the rich is stunting America’s economic growth. This book is essential reading for all of us who want to understand America today, or why average Americans are struggling to keep afloat. Smith reveals how pivotal laws and policies were altered while the public wasn’t looking, how Congress often ignores public opinion, why moderate politicians got shoved to the sidelines, and how Wall Street often wins politically by hiring over 1,400 former government officials as lobbyists. Smith talks to a wide range of people, telling the stories of Americans high and low. From political leaders such as Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and Martin Luther King, Jr., to CEOs such as Al Dunlap, Bob Galvin, and Andy Grove, to heartland Middle Americans such as airline mechanic Pat O’Neill, software systems manager Kristine Serrano, small businessman John Terboss, and subcontractor Eliseo Guardado, Smith puts a human face on how middle-class America and the American Dream have been undermined. This magnificent work of history and reportage is filled with the penetrating insights, provocative discoveries, and the great empathy of a master journalist. Finally, Smith offers ideas for restoring America’s great promise and reclaiming the American Dream. Praise for Who Stole the American Dream? “[A] sweeping, authoritative examination of the last four decades of the American economic experience.”—The Huffington Post “Some fine work has been done in explaining the mess we’re in. . . . But no book goes to the headwaters with the precision, detail and accessibility of Smith.”—The Seattle Times “Sweeping in scope . . . [Smith] posits some steps that could alleviate the problems of the United States.”—USA Today “Brilliant . . . [a] remarkably comprehensive and coherent analysis of and prescriptions for America’s contemporary economic malaise.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Smith enlivens his narrative with portraits of the people caught up in events, humanizing complex subjects often rendered sterile in economic analysis. . . . The human face of the story is inseparable from the history.”—Reuters
Author : Nancy Wiefek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313051708
Wiefek presents evidence of a link between individual-level economic concerns and political opinion. Conceptualizing economic anxiety by applying social psychological theory to the distinct characteristics of the new American economy, she presents evidence that this postindustrial economic anxiety shapes beliefs and policy opinions, above and beyond ideology, partisanship, and income. Journalists and political commentators have written extensively on the political consequences of the strains created by the transformation of the U.S. economy over the last thirty years. Yet, the individual-level anxiety accompanying America's transition to a postindustrial, globalized economy has not been explored in any systematic way. In fact, what clear empirical evidence we do have strongly suggests that citizens do not link their personal fortunes to their political opinions. Wiefek argues that the way in which political scientists normally go about looking for these connections misses what citizens experience in their daily lives, particularly their emotional reactions. The measures commonly used by political scientists do not tap the specific features of America's post-1973 economic transformation or the anxiety, insecurity, and fear it engenders. Wiefek presents a conceptualization of economic anxiety that draws upon psychological, sociological, economic, and political science theories and findings, and the distinct nature of the new economy. Using data from a mail survey, she estimates the impact of economic anxiety and presents strong evidence of its predictive power on political opinion. She concludes with a discussion of the political implications of these findings and argues that the progressive political potential of shared anxieties will require reversing the anti-government bias endemic to our current public dialogue.
Author : Kant Patel,Mark E Rushefsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317468899
The American health care system is a unique mix of public and private programs that critics argue has produced a two-tier system - one for the rich and the other for the poor - that delivers dramatically unequal care and leaves millions of Americans seriously underinsured or with no coverage at all. This book examines the root causes of the inequalities of the American health care system and discusses various policy alternatives. It systematically documents the demands on and the performance of our health care system for different population groups as defined on the basis of gender (women), age (children), race and ethnicity (African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans), and residence in high poverty areas (rural and inner city locales).For each population, the book documents: historical and demographic profile, data on health status, aspects of inequality including access; quality of care; and endemic, cultural, and lifestyle issues affecting health; policies, laws, and programs relevant to health care; and, indicators of improvement or negative trends.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010540148
Author : Mary Caputi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781793642417
Slow Culture and the American Dream: A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century is divided into an introduction, six chapters, and a conclusion. In making its case for the philosophy of slow, the book first chronicles the origins of the Slow Food movement in Italy in the 1980s followed by various outgrowths: e.g., Cittaslow (slow cities), slow fashion, slow travel, and slow parenting. The book explains why the slow movement is in many ways at odds with the prevalent American Dream so committed to growth, speed, and acceleration.
Author : David L. Kirp,John P. Dwyer,Larry A. Rosenthal
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : 0813524563
"This book is both an inspiring account of public interest law at its best and a sobering assessment of how 'the soul of suburbia' continues to resist social justice. . . . an unexpectedly moving account of hope, idealism, and intelligence." --The New York Times Book Review "A well-written, exhaustively researched account of the legal battle to open New Jersey's suburbs to the poor . . . The authors actually took the time to talk to the lawyers and litigants on both sides of the controversy. Their chronicle of the legal developments is informed, and much improved, by the flesh-and-blood stories of those who actually lived the case. . . . a cautionary and inspiring tale." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "The authors of Our Town in particular enable readers to see historical continuity in legal and popular discussions of race, realism, and housing patterns in American society. Our Town also explores the challenges to public policy raised by the existence of residential segregation patterns." --The Nation " This book] is valuable both as a case study of judicial activism and its consequences and as a detailed anaylsis of suburban attitudes regarding race, class, and property." --Urban Affairs Review