Class Counts: Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle Class

Class Counts: Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle Class
ISBN-10
0742547426
ISBN-13
9780742547421
Series
Class Counts
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
357
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Allan C. Ornstein

Description

Offers a multi-disciplinary assessment of the complex interface of housing, fairness, and government programs aimed at enforcing one of the nation's hallmark civil rights laws - the right to fair and open housing.

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