The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink - Softcover

Shriver, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1137279745 ISBN 13: 9781137279743

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2014

Synopsis

Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. 1 in 3 Americans today live in poverty or teeter on the brink. 70 million are women and the children who depend on them. The fragile economic status of millions of American women is the shameful secret of the modern era-yet these women are also our greatest hope for change, and our nation's greatest undervalued asset.

The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink asks-and answers-big questions. Why are millions of women financially vulnerable when others have made such great progress? Why are millions of women struggling to make ends meet even though they are hard at work? What is it about our nation-government, business, family, and even women themselves-that drives women to the financial brink? And what is at stake?

To answer these questions, we examined in detail three major cultural and economic changes over the past 50 years:
- Women work more outside the home, but still earn less than men.
- Women lead more families on their own.
- Women today need higher education to enter the middle class.

To forge a path forward that recognizes this reality, The Shriver Report brought together a power packed roster of big thinkers and talented contributors, including Hillary Clinton, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Lebron James, and challenged them to collaborate with us to develop fresh thinking around practical solutions. This report's unique combination of academic research, personal reflections, authentic photojournalism, groundbreaking poll results, front line workers, and box office celebrities, is all focused on a single issue of national importance: women and the economy. In The Shriver Report, Davos meets Main Street.

About this title

About the Author:

Maria Shriver is a mother of four, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist and producer, a six-time New York Times best-selling author, and an NBC News Special Anchor covering the shifting roles, emerging power and evolving needs of women in modern life. Since 2009, Shriver has produced a groundbreaking series of Shriver reports that chronicle and explore seismic shifts in the American culture and society affecting women today. Shriver was California's first lady from 2003 to 2010 and, during that time, she spearheaded what became the nation's premier forum for women, The Women's Conference.

The Center for American Progress is an independent nonpartisan educational institute dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action. CAP develops new, progressive policy ideas, challenges the media to cover the issues that truly matter, and shapes the national debate. Founded in 2003 by John Podesta to provide long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement, CAP is headed by Neera Tanden and based in Washington, DC.

From Booklist:

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. Maria Shriver’s uncle John F. Kennedy said this in his inauguration address more than 50 years ago. A war on poverty began in the 1960s, but how much progress has been made? The Shriver Report resumes this crusade by exposing disturbing facts about the growing marginalization of American women. More families now live in poverty or “on the brink,” thanks to the exploitation of women as cheap labor. America has lost the bedrock of a strong and abundant middle class. Family structure has crumbled. This collection of research, articles, and photographs compiled by Shriver and the Center for American Progress includes contributions from Hillary Rodham Clinton; Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed (2001); and others. It also provides a startling wake-up call for policymakers and anyone hoping to survive a culture that siphons wealth upward to a very powerful few. --Susan DeGrane

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1137279745
• ISBN 13: 9781137279743
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Morgan Olivia, Skelton Karen