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:
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Congressional Research Service -The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States by 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,
By Richard 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, by Wendy Wang, Kim Parker and Paul Taylor,
Pew Research May 29, 2013
11 maps and charts for Mother’s Day, by Niraj Chokshi, 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, Fariborz Ghadar, Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers (March 6, 2014)
US Economy:
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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future Joseph E. Stiglitz
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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
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April 24, 2012
Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy,
and how to fix it Robert B. Reich September 4, 2012
Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis James K.
Galbraith March 30, 2012
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker Paperback by Steven Greenhouse 2008
That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum Sept 5 2012
CBS pre-release interview with Friedman at
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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:
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Peter Drucker, “The Age of Social Transformation” Atlantic Magazine, November 1994
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Monthly Labor Review May 2002, author Mitra Toossi, A century of
change: the U.S. labor force, 1950–2050
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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 Middle
Center 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’s Pay Why It’s Our Central Economic Policy Challenge, By Josh Bivens, Elise
Gould, Lawrence Mishel, and Heidi 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, 2010 February 2011
 FRBSF Economic 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
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Publisher: Harvard University Press (March 10, 2014)
Links to charts: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/Piketty2014FiguresTablesLinks.pdf
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 http://www.foreignaffairs.com/discussions/audiovideo/foreign-affairs-focus-on-books-thomas-piketty-on-economic-inequa
Joseph E. Stiglitz recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001)
 The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future 6/11/12
Selected NY Times articles on inequality
 On the Wrong Side of Globalization, The New York Times, March 17, 2014.
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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 Reich Professor 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
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“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, Tatjana Meschede, 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:
http://www.theatlantic.com/ta-nehisi-coates
Social Mobility
 A Third of Americans Now Say They Are in the Lower Classes, By Rich Morin and Seth Motel Pew
Research Foundation, September 2012
 A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD Countries OECD 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
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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, By Rakesh
Kochhar, Richard Fry and Paul 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, measured Economist 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, By John Cassidy, the New Yorker
January 23. 2014
Education and Mobility:
 Pathways to Postsecondary Education for Pregnant and Parenting Teens by Cynthia B. Costello,
Ph.D Institute 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 Lives Oxfam 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 Ariane Hegewisch 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 Education By 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 children By Andre M. Perry, Washington
Post, July 7, 2014
 Pathways to Postsecondary Education for Pregnant and Parenting Teens by Cynthia B. Costello,
Ph.D Institute for Women’s Policy Research (June 2014)
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Strategies in Today’s Economy to Reduce Poverty
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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, By Eduardo Porter, NY Times, December 17, 2013
US Tax Policy:
 Tax Policy Center: Tax Expenditures: What are they and how are they structured?
 Congressional Budget Office report “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, By James 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 Finance Report and Recommendations, Simplifying the Tax System for
Families and Businesses
 Congressional Budget Office report “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: http://www.epi.org/research/
o policy options for EITC and CTC reform
 New America Foundation, Asset Building Program
o Children's Savings Accounts
o Solving the Retirement Puzzle
o Rebalancing the Scales
o The Financial Health Check
o Connecting Tax Time to Financial Security
 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Chart 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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