National Community Action Partnership Winter Meeting – New Year for Action

A Partial List of Selected Data Sources,Suggested Readings and Viewing

by Jim Masters and Allen Stansbury:

Demographics:

  • Congressional Research Service -The Changing Demographic Profile of the United Statesby Laura B. Shrestha, Assistant Director/Senior Specialist in Domestic Social Policy, Elayne J. Heisler Analyst in Health Services, March 31, 2011
  • A Rising Share of Young Adults Live in Their Parents’ Home: A Record 21.6 Million In 2012, ByRichard Fry, Pew Research Center
  • Breadwinner Moms: Mothers Are the Sole or Primary Provider in Four-in-Ten Households with Children; Public Conflicted about the Growing Trend, byWendy Wang,Kim ParkerandPaul Taylor, Pew Research May 29, 2013
  • 11 maps and charts for Mother’s Day, byNirajChokshi, Washington Post, May 9, 2014
  • The Modern American Family, A video CBS Sunday Morning, May 11, 2014
  • Who Votes Now?: Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States, Jan E. Leighley,Jonathan Nagler,Princeton University Press (November 24, 2013)

Becoming American: Why Immigration Is Good for Our Nation's Future, FariborzGhadar, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (March 6, 2014)

US Economy:

  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our FutureJoseph E. StiglitzJoseph E. Stiglitz (Author)
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  • June 11, 2012
  • Inequality in America: Facts, Trends, and International Perspectives by Uri Dadush, Kemal Dervis, Sarah P. Milsom, Bennett Stancil July 16, 2012
  • The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It Timothy Noah Timothy Noah (Author)
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  • Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix itRobert B. ReichSeptember 4, 2012
  • Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great CrisisJames K. Galbraith March 30, 2012
  • The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker Paperbackby Steven Greenhouse 2008
  • That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come BackThomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum Sept 5 2012

CBS pre-release interview with Friedman at

Websites and Magazine Articles

Pew Research Center’s Social &Demographic Trends

Urban Institute Low-Income Working Families Project

Economic Policy Institute - State of Working Families Project

Center for American Progress – Middle Class Series

Labor Trends:

  • Peter Drucker, “The Age of Social Transformation” Atlantic Magazine, November 1994
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics, Monthly Labor Review May 2002, author MitraToossi, A century of change: the U.S. labor force, 1950–2050
  • The Overworked American Family: Trends and Nontrends in Working Hours, 1968-20011 Michael Hout and Caroline Hanley University of California, Berkeley
  • The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict: The Poor, the Professionals, and the Missing MiddleCenter for WorkLife Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law study published by the Center for American Progress in January 2011
  • Center for Economic and Policy Research,Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?By John Schmitt and Janelle Jones, July 2012
  • Center for Economic Progress, “Where have all the good jobs gone,”

Long-Term Unemployed

  • Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Understanding and Responding to Persistently High Unemployment, February 2012
  • Are the Long-Term Unemployed on the Margins of the Labor Market?By: Alan B. Krueger, Judd Cramer and David Cho; Economic Studies at Brookings, March 2014

Salaries and Wage Trends

  • A DECADE OF FLAT WAGES The Key Barrier to Shared Prosperity and a Rising Middle Class, Economic Policy Institute, Lawrence Mishel and Heidi Shierholz, August 21, 2013
  • Raising America’sPay Why It’s Our Central Economic PolicyChallenge, ByJosh Bivens,Elise Gould,Lawrence Mishel, andHeidi Shierholz, published by the Economic Policy Institute, June 4, 2014

Labor Diversity:

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics, Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2012

Immigration and Migration

  • Pew Hispanic Center, Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010February 2011
  • FRBSFEconomic Letter, The Effect of Immigrants on U.S. Employment and Productivity by Giovanni Peri, August 2010

Minimum Wage and Other Issues

  • Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income, issued February 18, 2014
  • Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America’s Cities UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, et. al. 2009

Piketty, Stiglitz and Reich

Thomas Piketty,Paris School of Economics

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Publisher:Harvard University Press (March 10, 2014)
  • Links to charts:

Videos:

Thomas Piketty's'Capital' in 3 minutes Video

  • Foreign Affairs Magazine, Thomas Piketty on Economic Inequality, 17 minutes, Published on Apr 23, 2014, The transcript of this can be found at

Joseph E. Stiglitzrecipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences(2001)

  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future6/11/12

Selected NY Times articles on inequality

  • On the Wrong Side of Globalization, The New York Times, March 17, 2014.
  • In No One We Trust, The New York Times, December 21, 2013.
  • Inequality Is a Choice, The New York Times, October 13, 2013.
  • How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality, The New York Times, July 14, 2013.
  • Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream, The New York Times, May 12, 2013.
  • A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent, The New York Times, April 15, 2013.
  • Equality of Opportunity, Our National Myth, The New York Times, February 16, 2013.
  • Inequality Is Holding Back the Recovery, The New York Times, January 19, 2013.
  • Some Are More Unequal Than Others, The New York Times, October 26, 2012.
  • Political Causes, Political Solutions for Inequality, The New York Times, October 18, 2012.

Robert ReichProfessor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, President Clinton’s Labor Secretary, 1992-96

  • Film: Inequality for All - the official trailer

Books:

  • Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition) 9/24/13 (Vintage)
  • Beyond Outrage:What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it, published 9/14/12
  • Supercapitalism, The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life

Articles:

  • Robert Reich “Business Leaders Worrying about shrinking middle class,” SF Chronicle, June 29, 2014
  • Robert Reich, The Poor are Becoming Us, SF Chronicle, 1-17-14

Mobility

  • “All in Nation” Executive summary and the first two chapters.
  • PolicyLink.Org:Policy Recommendations
  • The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Explaining the Black-White Economic Divide. February, 2013. By Thomas Shapir, TatjanaMeschede, Sam Osoro
  • The $236,000Hole in the American Dream, by Dean Starkman, The New Republic. July 14, 2014
  • “Structural Racism” is caused or reinforced by public policies over the past 150 years. Home is where the Hatred Is, June 26, 2014. Slavery Made America, June 24, 2014. How Racism Invented Race in America June 23, 2014. Tia-Nehisi Coates. The Atlantic Magazine. All these articles are at:

Social Mobility

  • A Third of Americans Now Say They Are in the Lower Classes, ByRich MorinandSeth MotelPew Research Foundation, September 2012
  • A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD CountriesOECD 2010

Intergenerational mobility

  • Second-Generation Americans: A Portrait of the Adult Children of Immigrants Pew Research Foundation February 2, 2013
  • A surprising map of where it’s hardest to escape poverty in America, by Ezra Klein, Washington Post (1/23/14)
  • Where Is The Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the US, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 19843, by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline and Emmanuel Saez, January 2014

Economic Mobility

  • Rigid Credit Score Standards Hold Back Housing Recovery, Mark Whitlock and Sam Rodriguez, American Banker, JUL 7, 2014
  • Federal Reserve Bulletin November 2013: Mortgage Market Conditions and Borrower Outcomes: Evidence from the 2012 HMDA Data and Matched HMDA–Credit Record Data
  • Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, ByRakesh Kochhar,Richard FryandPaul Taylor, Pew Research Foundation July 26, 2011
  • As Foreign-Born Worker Population Grows, Many Lack Paid Sick Days by Alex Wang, Jeffrey Hayes, and Liz Ben-Ishai CLASP and Institute for Women’s Policy Research, July 2014
  • Class in America, Mobility, measuredEconomist Magazine February 1, 2014
  • Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs, By Jason DeParle NY Times January 4, 2012
  • Social Mobility Hasn’t Fallen: What It Means And Doesn’t Mean, ByJohn Cassidy, the New Yorker January 23. 2014

Education and Mobility:

  • Pathways to Postsecondary Education for Pregnant and Parenting Teens byCynthia B. Costello, Ph.DInstitute for Women’s Policy Research (June 2014)
  • National Report Card on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI) January 2014

Perception of Mobility

  • In U.S., Fewer Believe "Plenty of Opportunity" to Get Ahead, Similarly, only half say the U.S. economic system is fair, by Andrew Dugan and Frank Newport,Gallop Poll October 2013
  • Hard Work,Hard LivesOxfam America a poll conducted by Hart Research Associates

Barriers to Economic Mobility

  • Rigid Credit Score Standards Hold Back Housing Recovery, Mark Whitlock and Sam Rodriguez, American Banker, JUL 7, 2014
  • Federal Reserve Bulletin November 2013: Mortgage Market Conditions and Borrower Outcomes: Evidence from the 2012 HMDA Data and Matched HMDA–Credit Record Data
  • As Foreign-Born Worker Population Grows, Many Lack Paid Sick Days by Alex Wang, Jeffrey Hayes, and Liz Ben-Ishai CLASP and Institute for Women’s Policy Research, July 2014
  • Women at Greater Risk of Economic Insecurity: A Gender Analysis of the Rockefeller Foundation’s American Worker Survey, by Vicky Lovell, Ph.D., Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D., Claudia Williams,Institute for Women’s Policy Research (April 2008)
  • Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap: A Job Half Done, by ArianeHegewisch and Heidi Hartmann Institute for Women’s Policy Research (January 2014)
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics 2012 Report on Women’s Earnings, The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (a Harvard University research center), by Anna Stansbury, October 31, 2013
  • Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2012, Bureau of Labor Statistics October 2013
  • A surprising map of where it’s hardest to escape poverty in America, by Ezra Klein, Washington Post (1/23/14)
  • Where Is The Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the US, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 19843, by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline and Emmanuel Saez

Mobility and Education

  • Thirteen Economic Facts about Social Mobility and the Role of EducationBy Michael Greenstone, Adam Looney, Jeremy Patashnik, and Muxin Yu, The Hamilton Project – Brookings Institute, June 2013
  • Promoting Economic Mobility by Increasing Postsecondary Education, Pew Research Foundation, May 12, 2014
  • Zero-tolerance policies are destroying the lives of black childrenBy Andre M. Perry,Washington Post, July 7, 2014
  • Pathways to Postsecondary Education for Pregnant and Parenting Teens byCynthia B. Costello, Ph.DInstitute for Women’s Policy Research (June 2014)

Strategiesin Today’s Economy to Reduce Poverty

  • Where the states stand on Medicaid expansion, Advisory Board Briefing, May 28, 2014
  • Republican Plan to Combat Poverty Shifts Onus to States, written by Theodore Schleifer,NY Times, July 24, 2014
  • Paul Ryan to Propose Sweeping Consolidation in Antipoverty Pitch,Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2014
  • In the War on Poverty, a Dogged Adversary, ByEduardo Porter, NY Times, December 17, 2013

US Tax Policy:

  • Tax Policy Center: Tax Expenditures: What are they and how are they structured?
  • Congressional Budget Officereport “The Distribution of Major Tax Expenditures in the Individual Income Tax System”
  • US Congress Joint Committee on Taxation: Report JCT-13
  • LA Times: “Tax breaks benefit rich households the most, report says” by reporter Lisa Mascaro (May 29, 2013)
  • NY Times: High Income, Low Taxes and Never a Bad Year, ByJames B. Stewart, November 1, 2013

Tax Reform:

  • National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, “Moment of Truth” December 2010 Report and Recommendations
  • Tax Policy Center of the Urban and Brookings Institute
  • US Senate Committee on FinanceReport and Recommendations, Simplifying the Tax System for Families and Businesses
  • Congressional Budget Officereport “The Distribution of Major Tax Expenditures in the Individual Income Tax System”

Websites:

  • Half in Ten Campaign to cut poverty in half,Center for American Progress
  • Economic Policy Institute:
  • policy options for EITC and CTCreform
  • New America Foundation, Asset Building Program
  • Children's Savings Accounts
  • Solving the Retirement Puzzle
  • Rebalancing the Scales
  • The Financial Health Check
  • Connecting Tax Time to Financial Security
  • Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesChart Book: TANF at 16 (August 22, 2012)
  • Community Action Partnership of Long Beach, CA Leadership Academy Mentoring Program (L.A.M.P)
  • Center for Community Futures, Family Development and Case Management Summer Institutes

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