The Resource Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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- Summary
- Through the lives of real Americans, Kristof and WuDunn address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. Rural Yamhill, Oregon, prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. They are representative of places, from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. But here too are stories about resurgence, of working-class families needlessly but profoundly damaged as a result of decades of policy mistakes. -- adapted from jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 304 pages
- Contents
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- The kids on the number 6 school bus
- "We're no. 61!"
- When jobs disappear
- American aristocracy
- How America went astray
- Drug dealers in lab coats
- Losing the war on drugs
- Up by the bootstraps
- Deaths of despair
- Interventions that work
- Universal health care: one day, one town
- Homeless in a rich nation
- The escape artists
- A shot in the face
- God save the family
- The marriage of true minds
- We eat our young
- Raising troubled kids
- Creating more escape artists
- America regained
- Appendix: Ten steps you can take in the next ten minutes to make a difference
- Isbn
- 9780525655084
- Label
- Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope
- Title
- Tightrope
- Title remainder
- Americans reaching for hope
- Statement of responsibility
- Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- Subject
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- Poor -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- truePoverty
- trueUnited States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
- trueUnited States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- trueUnited States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- trueWorking class
- Working class -- United States -- Social conditions
- trueBlue collar workers
- Case studies
- trueCommunities
- trueLife expectancy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Through the lives of real Americans, Kristof and WuDunn address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. Rural Yamhill, Oregon, prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. They are representative of places, from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. But here too are stories about resurgence, of working-class families needlessly but profoundly damaged as a result of decades of policy mistakes. -- adapted from jacket
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- 10835600
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kristof, Nicholas D.
- Dewey number
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- 305.562
- 306.0973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HN59.2
- LC item number
- K75 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- 1959-
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- WuDunn, Sheryl
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- True
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- Poor
- Working class
- United States
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- Americans reaching for hope
- Label
- Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-293) and index
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- Contents
- The kids on the number 6 school bus -- "We're no. 61!" -- When jobs disappear -- American aristocracy -- How America went astray -- Drug dealers in lab coats -- Losing the war on drugs -- Up by the bootstraps -- Deaths of despair -- Interventions that work -- Universal health care: one day, one town -- Homeless in a rich nation -- The escape artists -- A shot in the face -- God save the family -- The marriage of true minds -- We eat our young -- Raising troubled kids -- Creating more escape artists -- America regained -- Appendix: Ten steps you can take in the next ten minutes to make a difference
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525655084
- Lccn
- 2019014592
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1091236838
- (OCoLC)on1091236838
- 644161
- Label
- Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-293) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The kids on the number 6 school bus -- "We're no. 61!" -- When jobs disappear -- American aristocracy -- How America went astray -- Drug dealers in lab coats -- Losing the war on drugs -- Up by the bootstraps -- Deaths of despair -- Interventions that work -- Universal health care: one day, one town -- Homeless in a rich nation -- The escape artists -- A shot in the face -- God save the family -- The marriage of true minds -- We eat our young -- Raising troubled kids -- Creating more escape artists -- America regained -- Appendix: Ten steps you can take in the next ten minutes to make a difference
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525655084
- Lccn
- 2019014592
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1091236838
- (OCoLC)on1091236838
- 644161
Subject
- Poor -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- truePoverty
- trueUnited States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
- trueUnited States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- trueUnited States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- trueWorking class
- Working class -- United States -- Social conditions
- trueBlue collar workers
- Case studies
- trueCommunities
- trueLife expectancy
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