| Description |
xiii, 383 p. : charts ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Opportunity and advancement for low-wage workers : new challenges, new solutions / Richard Kazis -- Playing by the rules, but losing the game : Americans in low-income working families / Gregory Acs, Katherin Ross Phillips, Daniel McKenzie -- Low earners : who are they? Do they have a way out? / Anthony P. Carnevale and Stephen J. Rose -- Employers in the low-wage/low-skill labor market / Paul Osterman -- Staying on, moving up : strategies to help entry-level workers retain employment and advance in their jobs / Anu Rangarajan -- Promoting access to better jobs : lessons for job advancement from welfare reform / Julie Strawn and Karin Martinson -- Sustained employment and earnings growth : experimental evidence on earnings supplements and preemployment services / Charles Michalopoulos -- Achieving economic self-sufficiency through asset building : opportunities for low-income workers / Coleen Dailey and Ray Boshara -- Stepping up : state policies and programs promoting low-wage workers' steady employment and advancement / Carol Clymer, Brandon Roberts and Julie Strawn -- Increasing economic security for low-wage women workers / Vicky Lovell and Heidi Hartmann -- Career advancement prospects and strategies for low-wage minority workers / Harry J. Holzer -- Latino low-wage workers : a look at immigrant workers / Sonia M. Perez and Cecilia Muņoz -- Increasing opportunities for living wage employment : targeted industry approaches for less-educated males / John Foster-Bey with Beata Bednarz -- Second chances in changing times : the roles of community colleges in advancing low-skilled workers / W. Norton Grubb -- Opening college doors for disadvantaged Hispanics : an assessment of effective programs and practices / Edwin Melendez and Carlos Suarez -- Workplace education investments and strategies for lower-wage workers : patterns and practices in employer-provided education / Amanda Ahlstrand ... [et. al.] -- Union innovations : moving workers from poverty into family-sustaining jobs / Brian Turner. |
| Subject |
Working poor.
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Wages.
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Working poor -- Government policy.
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United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001.
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| Added Author |
Kazis, Richard, 1952-
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Miller, Marc S.
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| ISBN |
0877667055 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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