Poverty

**ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON POVERTY: WHY ARE AMERICANS POOR DESPITE OUR NATIONAL WEALTH?**  **Have you tagged your annotated with the School your entry belongs to: Ideas, Institutions, Interests, and Economics?**  Wendy Brown, “American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservativism, and De-Democratization,” //Political Theory// 34, 6 (Dec. 2006), p. 690-714.  Christopher Howard, //The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy//, Princeton University Press, 2006, Ch. 1-4  Hedrick Smith, //Who Stole the American Dream?//, Random House, 2012, Chapters in Part I-Part II  Richard Freeman, //America Works: The Exceptional U.S. Labor Market//, Russell Sage Foundation, 2007, Ch. 1-4  Richard Freeman, //America Works: The Exceptional U.S. Labor Market//, Russell Sage Foundation, 2007, Ch. 5-9  Hedrick Smith, //Who Stole the American Dream?//, Random House, 2012, Chapters in Part III  Peter Gosselin, //High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families//, Basic Books, 2008, Ch. 1, 3 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">Hedrick Smith, //Who Stole the American Dream?//, Random House, 2012, Chapters in Part IV <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">Jennifer Silva, //Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty//, Oxford University Press, 2013, Ch. 1-2 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Reviews of Charles Murray, //Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010//, Crown Forum, 2012 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Jennifer Silva, //Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty//, Oxford University Press, 2013, Ch. 3-5, Conclusion <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Kathleen Gerson, //The Unfinished Revolution Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family//, Oxford University Press, 2011, Ch. 6-7 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, //The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke//, Basic Books, 2003, Ch. 1-2 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Thomas Shapiro, //The Hidden Cost of Being African-American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality//, Oxford University Press, 2004, Ch. 1-4 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Larry Brown, Robert Kuttner, and Thomas Shapiro, //Building a Real Ownership Society//, Century Foundation, 2005 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Thomas Shapiro, //The Hidden Cost of Being African-American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality//, Oxford University Press, 2004, Ch. 5-10, Conclusion <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Suzanne Mettler and Eric Welch, “The Civic Generation: Policy Feedback Effects of the G.I. Bill on Political Involvement Over the Life Course,” //British Journal of Political Science//, 34, 3 (July 2004), p. 497-518. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Suzanne Mettler, “Promoting Inequality: The Politics of Higher Education in an Era of Conservative Governance,” in Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond Kind, eds., //The Unsustainable American State//, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 197-222 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Suzanne Mettler, “Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era,” //Perspectives on Politics//, 8, 3 (September 2010), p. 803-824 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"> Hedrick Smith, //Who Stole the American Dream?//, Random House, 2012, Chapters in Part V-Part VI