{"product_id":"moving-the-needle-what-tight-labor-markets-do-for-the-poor-hardcover","title":"Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatherine S. Newman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eElisabeth S. Jacobs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America's most vulnerable households\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Most research on poverty focuses on the damage caused by persistent unemployment. But what happens when jobs are plentiful and workers are hard to come by? \u003ci\u003eMoving the Needle\u003c\/i\u003e examines how very low unemployment boosts wages at the bottom, improves benefits, lengthens job ladders, and pulls the unemployed into a booming job market. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on over seventy years of quantitative data, as well as interviews with employers, jobseekers, and longtime residents of poor neighborhoods, Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs investigate the most durable positive consequences of tight labor markets. They also consider the downside of overheated economies that can ignite surging rents and spur outmigration. \u003ci\u003eMoving the Needle\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent and original call to implement policies that will maintain the current momentum and prepare for potential slowdowns that may lie ahead\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining expert qualitative craft with quantitative evidence, \u003ci\u003eMoving the Needle\u003c\/i\u003e provides ideas, insights, and answers regarding how and why high-pressure labor markets reduce joblessness--and how social policy can prolong those benefits even when the pressure abates.--David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"One of the few accounts of what happens when jobs are ample and wages are rising. The authors show us how tight labor markets create benefits for all workers, including those often excluded from policymaking. This book is a call to enact policy that builds a stable and fair economy.\"--Mary Kay Henry, President, Service Employees International Union \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eMoving the Needle\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case--through exhaustive interviews with employers, intermediaries, and workers in two communities--for a set of urgent policy actions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide low-wage workers with ladders of opportunity that lead to self-sufficiency.\"--Alicia Sasser Modestino, Professor of Economics at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eMoving the Needle \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the actual institutions of the labor market, providing crucial insight into how job hunting, hiring, training, and retention work for low-income people. By bridging the chasm between macroeconomics and poverty, this book lays to rest decades of ill-conceived efforts to rectify behavior and instead focuses attention where it is needed: on the ready availability of good jobs for improving the lives of workers and their families.\"--Michael Ash, author of \u003ci\u003eShadow Networks: Financial Disorder and the System that Caused Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine S. Newman\u003c\/b\u003e is Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of California. She is author of fourteen books on topics including the working poor, social mobility, apprenticeship, the impact of regressive taxation, and downward mobility. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eElisabeth S. Jacobs\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and cofounder of WorkRise, a research-to-action network on jobs, workers, and mobility, for which she serves as deputy director. She has worked at the intersection of cutting-edge social science and public policy for nearly two decades.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 28, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45423712141414,"sku":"9780520379107","price":38.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/QXhxS21zd3p3d1hjUUkrYWRGMzU0Zz09.webp?v=1775580637","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/moving-the-needle-what-tight-labor-markets-do-for-the-poor-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}