{"product_id":"2940152005233","title":"Clearing Obstacles to Work: A Wise Giver's Guide to Fostering Self-Reliance","description":"\u003cp\u003eCracks are becoming visible in American work habits. Whole subpopulations now have weak attachments to self-supporting labor. This worsens poverty and economic mobility. It also damages well-being in subtler ways—because work plays a vital role in building social connections, and boosting self-respect and happiness. Any sensible effort to improve American prosperity today must begin by bolstering work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlas, government agencies have a very checkered history when it comes to helping those who have struggled in the workforce develop the capacities to do better in the future. Statistically, most government job-training programs are quite unimpressive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are, however, many charitable programs that have demonstrated real success at leading unskilled persons, single mothers, inexperienced minorities, released prisoners, former addicts, and other at-risk populations into lasting, transformative employment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was written to help donors find those successful models and strategies. Because when it comes to curing deprivation, softening inequality, improving life satisfaction, and strengthening society, work works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philanthropy Roundtable","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149684916464,"sku":"2940152005233","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152005233_p0.jpg?v=1764016731","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152005233","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}