{"id":2489,"date":"2018-10-07T11:09:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T15:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeaftercarbon.net\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2018-10-07T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T15:11:15","slug":"a-few-thousand-dollars-how-to-build-inclusive-prosperity-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/2018\/10\/a-few-thousand-dollars-how-to-build-inclusive-prosperity-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Few Thousand Dollars&#8221; &#8212; How to build inclusive prosperity in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our long-time friend <a href=\"https:\/\/prosperitynow.org\/people\/robert-friedman\">Bob Friedman<\/a>, an innovator in America&#8217;s economic justice struggle and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/prosperitynow.org\">Prosperity Now<\/a>, has written a new book that delivers an elegant policy solution with passion and analysis. Here&#8217;s our review:<\/p>\n<p>Bob Friedman\u2019s <em>A Few Thousand Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone\u00a0<\/em>offers an elegant\u2014and proven\u2014way to create widespread prosperity in America and renew the nation\u2019s fundamental promise of opportunity for all.\u00a0 How uplifting and timely! But most of all, how instructive: turn the existing government budgets and tax incentives for family wealth building into Prosperity Accounts that provide families with money\u2014a few thousand dollars a year\u2014to get more education, start businesses, buy homes, save for the future, and pass money and values on to the next generation. And do it for <em>everyone<\/em>. No more money is needed because families will leverage the resources, but smarter public policies are. Policies that recognize the common good that is generated by investing in people.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman makes the case for policy change with data, logic, and a sprinkling of profiles of individuals who in their lives got a crucial helping \u201chand up\u201d from family, community, and government. A veteran of the nation\u2019s economic-justice struggles, he writes with insight, clarity, passion, political savvy, and, most of all, a firm conviction that the change America so badly needs can happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Few-Thousand-Dollars-Sparking-Prosperity-ebook\/dp\/B0798W7Y5B\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1538924195&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=a+few+thousand+dollars\"><strong>Order from Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our long-time friend Bob Friedman, an innovator in America&#8217;s economic justice struggle and founder of Prosperity Now, has written a new book that delivers an elegant policy solution with passion and analysis. Here&#8217;s our review: Bob Friedman\u2019s A Few Thousand Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone\u00a0offers an elegant\u2014and proven\u2014way to create widespread prosperity in America and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}