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The State of Working America 2000-2001
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, ...

Cornell University Press, 2001

This highly regarded volume, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, sums up the problems and challenges facing American workers. Drawing on both original research and published sources, the authors present a wide variety of data on family incomes, taxes, wages, unemployment, wealth, and poverty--data that enable them to closely examine the impact of the economy on the living standards of the American people. This latest ...

All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy (BK Currents)

6 reviews
Jared Bernstein

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006

Common Sense for Our Time
With “All Together Now,” Jared Bernstein follows in the footsteps of Tom Paine’s “Common Sense.” Before the publication of Paine’s 1776 pamphlet, colonists either could not imagine a government other than monarchy, or considered such thought premature. Within after, the Declaration of Independence was composed and signed. Much as “Common Sense” ...

The State of Working America, 1998-99 (State of Working America)
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, ...

Cornell Univ Pr, 1999

Praise for previous editions-- "A truly comprehensive and useful book that provides a reality check on loose statements about U.S. labor markets. It should be cheered by all Americans who earn their living from work."--William Wolman, Chief Economist, Business Week, CNBC "If you want to know what happened to the economic well-being of the average American in the past decade or so, this is the book for you. Required reading for Americans of ...

The State of Working America, 2006/2007 (State of Working America)

2 reviews
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, ...

ILR Press, 2006

Change Is Needed Now and Here's Why
If you can wade your way through the statistics, this book is enlightening and edifying, often sad. The commentary and interpretation help clarify the wealth of information. It graphically illustrates that nothing has changed after all these years of hope and promises for change: the rich keep getting richer, the poor keep getting poorer, poverty is endemic to our tired, unimaginative economic ...

Crime and work: What we can learn from the low-wage labor market
Jared Bernstein

Economic Policy Inst, 2000

Economic theory predicts a cause-and-effect relationship between improvements in the labor market and lower rates of crime. Empirical support for this causal connection means that labor market policies can play a role in reducing crime rates. To lift the economic prospects of all low-wage workers is not only a worthy economic and social goal, but one that will pay off in the long run by offering potential criminals a legitimate alternative to ...

The Benefits of Full Employment: When Markets Work for People

1 review
Jared Bernstein, Dean Baker

Economic Policy Inst, 2003

Remains as insightful and well-reasoned today as it was four years ago.
Expert economists Jared Bernstein and Dean Baker present The Benefits of Full Employment: When Markets Work for People, a thoughtful look at the prosperity that came with the 1990s employment boom. That era revealed that full employment and stable prices could successfully coexist; incomes rose while poverty, welfare rolls, and crime rates fell. Though the full employment of the 1990s ended when ...

Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)

8 reviews
Jared Bernstein

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008

clear tools for understanding where we are and where we're headed
Having long ago forgotten my college economics, I've been trying to make sense of the current talk of recession and the various stimulus proposals put out by politicians. Something about the viewpoint expressed by cable news pundits and economic leaders hasn't added up for me, but I couldn't articulate why. Jared Bernstein can and did in his book Crunch. In clear language, he explains how the ...

The State of Working America, 2008-2009 (State of Working America)
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, ...

Ilr Pr, 2009

The State Of Working America, 2004/2005
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, ...

ILR Press, 2005

Economic Policy Institute The State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty—data that enable the authors to closely examine the effect of the economy on the living standards of the American people.

The State of Working America 1992-1993 (State of Working America)
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein

M.E. Sharpe, 1993

How Much is Enough? Basic Family Budgets for Working Families
Jared Bernstein

Economic Policy Inst, 2000

With the advent of welfare reform and renewed interest in working poverty, policy analysts and advocates for the poor have become interested in the question, what is an adequate family income for a working family? This report examines this issue. It reviews and critiques the current U.S. poverty measure and argues that it is not conceptually up to the task of answering the question posed above. At the heart of the report is a detailed analysis ...

The State of Working America, 2002/2003 (State of Working America)
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein

Cornell University Press, 2003

The State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty-data that enable the authors to closely examine the effect of the economy on the living standards of the American people. Praise for previous editions- "The State of Working America has become a fixture on the bookshelves of policymakers and ...

The State of Working America 1996-97 (State of Working America)
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, ...

M.E. Sharpe, 1997

Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families
Chauna Brocht, Jared Bernstein, ...

Economic Policy Institute, 2001

Across the country, millions of full-time, full-year workers are unable to draw a paycheck large enough to afford their families' most basic needs. Yet the antiquated federal poverty measurement is inadequate to reflect this reality. Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families establishes a "basic family budget" - the amount of income a family requires to afford a safe and decent standard of living - for families in every community ...

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