What Gets Measured, Gets Done: Understanding and Addressing Middle‐Class Challenges.
Middle‐class families face a range of challenges, including uneven income growth, imposing child care costs, and affordability gaps for higher education. The ideal policies by which policy makers and public administrators can aid the middle class are far from obvious. Policy solutions are likely to...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 768 - 772 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep/Oct2019
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