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September 2004: Bridging the Two Americas: The Politics of Welfare, Jobs, Earnings, and Families, Volume , Issue
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Bridging the Two Americas
Robert Kuttner
Work and Income
Welfare Reform, Phase Two
Mark Greenberg
Doing less with less.
How Much Is Enough?
Deepak Bhargava
To live decently, working families need a lot more than what low-wage jobs currently pay. They need social outlays and income supports as well as career horizons.
Business: Ally or Obstacle?
Dorian Friedman
Although they're not the norm, a number of civic-minded companies are helping their low-wage workers juggle job and family challenges. Government also needs to do more.
A Payday Bonus
Robert S. McIntyre
The Earned Income Tax Credit helps “make work pay” for millions of hard-pressed families. Despite some blemishes that need fixing, on the whole it's a real success.
Can Better Skills Meet Better Jobs?
Steve Savner and Jared Bernstein
The economy needs both. Here's how we can attain them.
Women and Children Last
Ayelish McGarvey
The right wants welfare mothers to work but will not pay for the necessary child care.
The Politics of One America
Robert B. Reich
How to build a coalition of the poor and the middle class to make work pay.
Purgatory of the Working Poor
David Hage
People seeking help from the job-training and income-support systems face a bureaucratic paper chase and limited resources. There are oases of progress, but much remains to be done.
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