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The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
Maria Shriver
RosettaBooks
January 2014
On Sale: January 12, 2014
ISBN: 1439187630 EAN: 9781439187630 Kindle: B00HNBD11Y e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a
War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it,
the most important social issue of our day is once again the
dire economic straits of millions of Americans. 1 in 3
Americans today live in poverty or teeter on the brink. 70
million are women and the children who depend on them. The
fragile economic status of millions of American women is the
shameful secret of the modern era—yet these women are also
our greatest hope for change, and our nation’s greatest
undervalued asset. The Shriver Report: A
Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink asks—and
answers—big questions. Why are millions of women financially
vulnerable when others have made such great progress? Why
are millions of women struggling to make ends meet even
though they are hard at work? What is it about our
nation—government, business, family, and even women
themselves—that drives women to the financial brink? And
what is at stake? To answer these questions, we
examined in detail three major cultural and ecoomic changes
over the past 50 years: - Women work more outside
the home, but still earn less than men.
- Women lead
more families on their own.
- Women today need higher
education to enter the middle class.
To forge a
path forward that recognizes this reality, The Shriver
Report brought together a power packed roster of big
thinkers and talented contributors, including Hillary
Clinton, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Lebron James, and
challenged them to collaborate with us to develop fresh
thinking around practical solutions. This report’s unique
combination of academic research, personal reflections,
authentic photojournalism, groundbreaking poll results,
front line workers, and box office celebrities, is all
focused on a single issue of national importance: women and
the economy. In The Shriver Report, Davos meets Main
Street.
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