The forgotten Americans:
Does the American Dream still exist when nearly 30 million Americans live in families in which workers find a paycheck and poverty in the same envelope? Just as Michael Harrington's The Other America shocked the nation with its disclosure of poverty in the 1960s, John E. Schwarz and Thomas J. V...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Does the American Dream still exist when nearly 30 million Americans live in families in which workers find a paycheck and poverty in the same envelope? Just as Michael Harrington's The Other America shocked the nation with its disclosure of poverty in the 1960s, John E. Schwarz and Thomas J. Volgy's The Forgotten Americans exposes the breadth of poverty that exists today among responsible, hardworking Americans. At the end of the prosperous 1980s, the number of Americans living in working-poor families equaled the combined populations of the nation's 25 largest cities. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this situation is not largely confined to minorities, women, the undereducated, or young adults. It is commonplace for workers from nearly all segments of society to be employed in low-paying jobs even during good economic times The Forgotten Americans reveals the betrayal of the hopes and expectations of these industrious people through broad-based factual evidence and the real-life stories of individual families. Their hardship has been ignored at enormous cost to them and the country. Numerous problems at the forefront of national debate - welfare dependency, crime, and the inadequate performance of many American school children - are closely connected to the existence of working poverty on a large scale. Unless corrective action is taken, the country risks the creation of a deeply fractured society arising from the despair of millions of employed people who have discovered that practicing the work ethic yields little reward. The problem is staggering and often misunderstood by politicians, the media, and the public Once Schwarz and Volgy have outlined the implications of this social and economic tragedy, they propose effective solutions that require simple changes to existing policies - solutions that are politically feasible and can be accomplished without new taxes. Enactment of the solutions proposed in The Forgotten Americans will go a long way toward restoring the American Dream |
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| 520 | 3 | |a Does the American Dream still exist when nearly 30 million Americans live in families in which workers find a paycheck and poverty in the same envelope? Just as Michael Harrington's The Other America shocked the nation with its disclosure of poverty in the 1960s, John E. Schwarz and Thomas J. Volgy's The Forgotten Americans exposes the breadth of poverty that exists today among responsible, hardworking Americans. At the end of the prosperous 1980s, the number of Americans living in working-poor families equaled the combined populations of the nation's 25 largest cities. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this situation is not largely confined to minorities, women, the undereducated, or young adults. It is commonplace for workers from nearly all segments of society to be employed in low-paying jobs even during good economic times | |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Tables xt
Preface x v
1 The American Ethos and the American People 3
2 On the Economic Front Lines: Two American Families i 6
3 Economic Self sufficiency in Present day America 3 z
4 America s Families, American Workers, and Economic 5 3
Hardship: The Scope of the Problem
5 Working Americans and Economic Hardship: 7 z
The Complexity of the Problem
6 Other Casualties of the Job Shortage 9 2
7 A View from City Hall J ° 7
8 The Path of Action J3°
Epilogue: A Call for Action J 4 9
i x
Contents
Appendix 9
Notes x 7 3
Bibliography x 9 9
Index ZI1
LIST OF TABLES
Table i The Relative Size and Impact of Social Pro i 4
grams in Seven Western Nations
Table z Proportions of Respondents Saying That They 3 9
Were Unable to Afford Food, Clothing, or Medical Care
at Some Point during the Year, 1984 and 1987
Table 3 Four Measures of the Income Required for 4 *
Americans to Purchase Necessities, 1981 199°
Table 4 Low Economy Budget for a Family of Two 4 4
Adults and Two Children, 1990
Table j Distribution of Annual Family Income for Stu 5 °
dent Bodies of High and Low performance Schools
Table 6 Americans in Poverty According to the Official 6 2
Poverty Measure and the Original Concept behind the
Official Poverty Measure, Selected Years, I959 J989
Table 7 Age, Education, and Percentage of Fully 6 8
Employed Workers Who Live beneath Economic Self suf¬
ficiency, 1989
jc i
List of Tables
Table 8 Race, Gender, Education, and the Percentage of 74
Fully Employed Heads of Household Who Live beneath
Economic Self sufficiency, 1989
Table 9 Fully Employed Males Aged 26—30 with Earn 7 9
ings beneath Economic Self sufficiency, 1986, by Race,
Education, and Academic Skills
Table 10 Males Aged 26 30 in 1986 Who Were Con 80
tinuously Fully Employed from 1983 to 1986 with Earn¬
ings beneath Economic Self sufficiency at Least Half of
Those Years
Table 11 Percentage of Manufacturing Workers on 83
Nonagricultural Payrolls and Balance of World Trade in
Manufacturing, United States, Selected Years, 1965
1987
Table 12 Percentage of All American Workers with 8 4
Low, Middle, and High Earnings, 1973 1985
Table 13 Ratio of Average Earnings of the Top and Bot 8 5
torn One fifth of American Workers to the Middle Fifth
of Workers, 1950—1986, by Gender
Table 14 Percentage of Fully Employed Manufacturing 8 6
Workers Living in Households beneath Economic Self
sufficiency, in 1989
Table is Productivity Increases and Real Compensation 8 7
per Hour of Manufacturing Workers in the United States
and West Germany, 1978—1988
Table 16 Economic Development Strategies, Overall Job 120
Increases, Manufacturing Job Increases, and Wage
Increases for States, 1984 1989
Table iy States with Economic Development Programs, 122
Job Increases above the National Average in Manufactur¬
ing Jobs or Overall Jobs, and Wage Increases, 1984
1989
Table 18 Unemployment Rates 1 2 3
Table 19 Percentage Growth in Personal Income, per 123
Capita, 1983 1988
x i i
List of Tables
Table zo Average Hourly Earnings in Manufacturing 123
Table 21 Earnings Supplements and Taxes for Fully 137
Employed Families of Four at Different Income Levels
Table zz The Effect of the Absence of a Supplement 142
Program and Continuation of the Supplement Program
on Families in Which a Fully Employed Worker Reduces
Work Hours by One quarter for Educational Purposes
Table 23 Distribution of Nonvoters in the 1988 Elec 167
tions, by Family Income and Attitudes toward Govern¬
ment Assistance to the Poor
Table 24 The Distribution of Votes in the 1988 Presi 167
dential Election, by Family Income and Attitudes toward
Government Assistance to the Poor
Table 25 Alternative Outcomes for the Presidential 168
Election of 1988
Table z6 After tax Incomes to Families of Four Earning 170
Incomes of ,000 and ,000 under the Proposed
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