Author: Isabel V. Sawhill
Publisher: Brookings Institution Pre
Keywords: futures, america, children, brighter, policies, percent, kids, new, one
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0815777213
ISBN-13: 9780815777212

In the United States, long considered the land of opportunity, children born into different types of families begin life with very unequal prospects. A growing group of children is being raised in families in which a poorly educated mother begins childbearing at an early age, often outside marriage, and ends up dependent on public welfare. Another group is raised by parents who delay childbearing until they are well-educated, married, and have stable jobs; these children go on to lead more advantageous lives. While virtually everyone talks about the importance of investing in the next generati

Authors:Ron Haskins, Isabel Sawhill,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: society, opportunity, creating
Number of Pages: 347
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0815703228
ISBN-13: 9780815703228

Authors:John L. Palmer, Isabel V. Sawhill,
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Keywords: reagan, policies, administration, social, economic, experiment, examination
Number of Pages: 530
Published: 1982-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0877663157
ISBN-13: 9780877663157

Authors:Alice M. Rivlin, Isabel Sawhill,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: budget, balance, sanity, fiscal, restoring
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2004-04
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0815777817
ISBN-13: 9780815777816

In Restoring Fiscal Sanity, scholars with high-level government experience provide an overview of the country’s likely medium- and long-term spending needs and the resources available to pay for them. They propose three alternative fiscal paths that are more responsible than the current path.

Authors:Jill Duerr Berrick, Bruce Fuller, I. Sawhill,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: daily, lives, families, shapes, workers, policy, parents
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-09-03
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 1403969647
ISBN-13: 9781403969644

Good Parents or Good Workers? draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures. Contributors look at family policy in the context of daily demands and critique new social programs that are designed to strengthen families. The book is divided into three course-friendly sections that deal with the impact of welfare reform on caregiving, the lived experiences of low-income families, and family policy debates. Good Parents or Good Workers? is an important text on the impacts of welfare ref

Authors:Professor Isabel de Madariaga, Isabel De Madariaga,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: history, short, catherine
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0300097220
ISBN-13: 9780300097221

An eminent scholar of Russian history here presents the most informative, balanced, and up-to-date short study of Catherine the Great and her reign. This edition includes a new preface dealing with recently discovered sources and revised interpretations of the period.

Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Feltrinelli Traveller
Keywords: paula, italian, universale, economica
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8807814323
ISBN-13: 9788807814327