Shared Prosperity in America's Communities (The City in the Twenty-First Century)

ISBN 10: 081224785X / ISBN 13: 9780812247855

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shared Prosperity in America's Communities (The City in the Twenty-First Century)
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081224785X
• ISBN 13: 9780812247855
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

While the nation's GDP has doubled in the last thirty years, significant increases in family income have been restricted to a small subset of the American population. This disjunct between national economic growth and stagnating incomes in all but the very top tier of the population corresponds with increasing economic inequality and a lack of social and economic mobility. As a consequence, neighborhoods and metropolitan areas have become more polarized. Stark geographic differences in levels of poverty, income, health outcomes, job opportunities, lifetime earning potential, and educational attainment highlight the degree to which place matters in terms of social and economic opportunity. Shared Prosperity in America's Communities examines this place-based disparity of opportunity and suggests what can be done to ensure that the benefits of economic growth are widely shared. Contributors' essays explore social and economic mobility throughout the country to illuminate the changing geog

About the Author

Susan M. Wachter is the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, The Wharton School; Professor of City and Regional Planning, School of Design; and Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, at the University of Pennsylvania. Lei Ding is Community Development Economic Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.