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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453607203321

Autore

Bryant John <1966->

Titolo

How the poor can save capitalism : rebuilding the path to the middle class / / John Hope Bryant ; foreword by Andrew Young ; copy-editor, Todd Manza ; cover designer, Kirk DouPonce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, California : , : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-62656-034-X

1-62656-033-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

305.5/50973

Soggetti

Middle class - United States - Social conditions

Poor - Employment - United States

Economic development - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; PART I: SEEDING HOPE; One: Separate, Unequal America; Two: A New Look at Income Disparity; PART II: INVESTING IN HOPE; Three: Cracking the Code of Finance; Four: Banking and Financial Services; Five: The Working Family's Hedge Fund; PART III: NURTURING HOPE; Six: 700 Credit Score Communities; Seven: The Power of Small Business and Entrepreneurship; PART IV: HARVESTING HOPE; Eight: The HOPE Plan; Nine: Project 5117; Conclusion: Where We Go from Here; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

About Operation HOPE Inc.About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration, he argues, they will be able to lift themselves up into the middle class and become a new generation of customers and entrepreneurs.     Raised in poverty-stricken, gang-infested South



Central Los Angeles, Bryant saw firsthand how our institutions have abandoned the poor. He details how