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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Creating an opportunity society
  name:
    name part: Haskins, Ron.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Sawhill, Isabel V.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "Presents facts and factors that contribute to economic opportunity, looking at how poor, middle class, and rich have fared in recent decades. Proposes a cost-effective agenda for increasing opportunity, consistent with American values, and focuses on improving lives of the young and disadvantaged, emphasizing individual responsibility as indispensable for success"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Our vision -- Public values and attitudes -- The changing fortunes of the rich, the poor, and the middle class -- Opportunity in the United States -- Why family background matters -- Perspectives on poverty -- Middle-class complaints -- Expanding educational opportunity -- Supporting and encouraging work -- Strengthening families -- Paying the bills -- Appendixes -- A. Grants, loans, and tax provisions for postsecondary students -- B. The Bush marriage initiative
  note: Ron Haskins, Isabel Sawhill.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-335) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Social mobility
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Social classes
    topic: Economic aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Economic policy
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social policy
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: HN90.S65 H35 2009
  classification: 305.5/13
  identifier: 9780815703228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0815703228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009026627
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090709
    record change date: 20151111074853.0
    record identifier: in00002520573