Jared Bernstein on “You Can Take It With You: Income and Wealth Across Generations”
Linda Darling-Hammond on “Educational Quality and Equality: What It Will Take to Leave No Child Behind"
Philip Tegeler on “Connecting Families to Opportunity: The Next Generation of Housing Mobility Policy”
Marc Mauer on “Reducing Incarceration to Expand Opportunity”
Brian D. Smedley on “Why Health-Care Equity is Essential to Opportunity--and How to Get There”
Margery Austin Turner and Carla Herbig on “Measuring the Extent and Forms of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Lessons from Paired-Testing Research”
Ed Telles and Vilma Ortiz on “Finding America: Creating Educational Opportunity for our Newest Citizens”
All Things Being Equal
Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time
Edited by Brian D. Smedley and Alan Jenkins
With an introduction by Alan Jenkins, Brian D. Smedley, and Bill Lann Lee
Published in conjunction with The Opportunity Agenda
hardcover
$24.95 / £14.99
—REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
When we talk about uninsured kids, dozens to a classroom, being taught by teachers with no expertise in their field; about mass incarceration with no rehabilitation; about real estate brokers or employment firms that continue to discriminate into the twenty-first century; about housing programs that reinforce segregation and fail to connect willing workers with the employers who need them, we are mainly talking about failures of opportunity.
Contrary to popular belief, opportunity in America is in crisis. Class mobility is at an all-time low, the wage gap is through the roof, and Horatio Algers are few and far between. This and other critical ideas about the state of opportunity are documented in All Things Being Equal, a smart new book from a smart new outfit whose mission is to increase opportunity for all Americans.
Half critique, half all-important-road-map-for-the-future, All Things Being Equal includes eight original essays by top-notch thinkers pointing to areas in American life where opportunity is missing and showing us how to instigate it.
Alan Jenkins is Executive Director and Brian Smedley is Research Director of The Opportunity Agenda. Jenkins lives in New York and Smedley lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Founded in 2005, The Opportunity Agenda is a New York and Washington, D.C.–based communications, research, and advocacy organization dedicated to building the national will to expand opportunity in America.
hardcover
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 256 pages
978-1-59558-210-2
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