Background
BERGMANN, Barbara Rose was born in 1927 in New York City, New York, United States of America. Daughter of Martin and Nellie Berman.
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A detailed look at crime in America with over 200 specific recommendations for a safer and more just society. Forward by Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Chairman of the Commission.
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More than one in five American children live below the poverty line, a proportion that exceeds that of any other advanced nation. Although large numbers of Western European children live with single or unemployed parents, or belong to disadvantaged minorities, they are better shielded from severe deprivation by carefully designed public assistance programs. Saving Our Children from Poverty describes one of the most successful European systems of assistance for families, that of France, and through comparison with American programs offers a valuable guide to improving our own safety net for children and reforming our dysfunctional welfare system. Saving Our Children from Poverty details the array of benefits available to both high- and low-income families in France. Government-run nursery schools provide free, high-quality care for almost all children between the ages of three and six. Children also receive guaranteed medical care under a national health insurance plan. The French system offers married couples most of the same benefits as single parents, and creates strong incentives to seek and hold jobs rather than remain on welfare. A French single mother who chooses to work still receives substantial income supplements, housing assistance, subsidized health care, and access to public child care facilities. In stark contrast, her American counterpart loses most of her cash benefits if she takes a job and receives no government assistance with child care. Because American policies focus disproportionately on aiding the poorest non-working families, parents forced to rely on low-wage jobs are frequently left without the resources to provide their children with an adequate standard of living. As the public debate on welfare reform continues to rage, ever more American children fall into poverty. Why does the nation remain so unresponsive to their plight? Saving Our Children from Poverty probes the American aversion to national assistance programs, citing the negative attitudes that have seeped into the current political discourse. A lack of faith in the federal government's administrative abilities has bolstered a trend toward decentralization of programs, as well as a growing resistance to taxation. Racial antipathies and a belief that financial support encourages irresponsibility further undermine the development of programs for those in need. Saving Our Children from Poverty illustrates what a nation no wealthier than ours can realistically accomplish and afford, and concludes with a viable blueprint for successfully applying aspects of France's system to the United States. More than one in five American children live below the poverty line, a proportion that exceeds that of any other advanced nation. Although large numbers of Western European children live with single or unemployed parents, or belong to disadvantaged minorities, they are better shielded from severe deprivation by carefully designed public assistance programs. Saving Our Children from Poverty describes one of the most successful European systems of assistance for families, that of France, and through comparison with American programs offers a valuable guide to improving our own safety net for children and reforming our dysfunctional welfare system. Saving Our Children from Poverty details the array of benefits available to both high- and low-income families in France. Government-run nursery schools provide free, high-quality care for almost all children between the ages of three and six. Children also receive guaranteed medical care under a national health insurance plan. The French system offers married couples most of the same benefits as single parents, and creates strong incentives to seek and hold jobs rather than remain on welfare. A French single mother who chooses to work still receives substantial income supplements, housing assistance, subsidized health care, and access to public child care facilities. In stark contrast, her American counterpart loses most of her cash benefits if she takes a job and receives no government assistance with child care. Because American policies focus disproportionately on aiding the poorest non-working families, parents forced to rely on low-wage jobs are frequently left without the resources to provide their children with an adequate standard of living. As the public debate on welfare reform continues to rage, ever more American children fall into poverty. Why does the nation remain so unresponsive to their plight? Saving Our Children from Poverty probes the American aversion to national assistance programs, citing the negative attitudes that have seeped into the current political discourse. A lack of faith in the federal government's administrative abilities has bolstered a trend toward decentralization of programs, as well as a growing resistance to taxation. Racial antipathies and a belief that financial support encourages irresponsibility further undermine the development of programs for those in need. Saving Our Children from Poverty illustrates what a nation no wealthier than ours can realistically accomplish and afford, and concludes with a viable blueprint for successfully applying aspects of France's system to the United States.
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(At a time when quotas and preferences are under attack na...)
At a time when quotas and preferences are under attack nationwide, Barbara Bergmann courageously show that without the help of affirmative action America will never be able to attain a truly race-blind and sex-blind society, for it is naive to imagine that the abolition of affirmative action will lead to a system based solely on ability. Women and minorities do in fact need assistance in cases where prejudice or habit leads to preference for white males in all openings. Free of the posturing that has so often degraded this debate, In Defense of Affirmative Action is a clarion call to maintain affirmative action as a just and indispensable solution to a chronic problem in American society. At a time when quotas and preferences are under attack nationwide, Barbara Bergmann courageously show that without the help of affirmative action America will never be able to attain a truly race-blind and sex-blind society, for it is naive to imagine that the abolition of affirmative action will lead to a system based solely on ability. Women and minorities do in fact need assistance in cases where prejudice or habit leads to preference for white males in all openings. Free of the posturing that has so often degraded this debate, In Defense of Affirmative Action is a clarion call to maintain affirmative action as a just and indispensable solution to a chronic problem in American society.
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This new edition of a classic feminist book explains how one of the great historical revolutions - the ongoing movement toward equality between the sexes - has come about. Its origins are to be found, not in changing ideas, but in the economic developments that have made women's labour too valuable to be spent exclusively in domestic pursuits. The revolution is unfinished; new arrangements are needed to fight still-prevalent discrimination in the workplace, to achieve a more just sharing of housework and childcare between women and men, and, with the weakening of the institution of marriage, to re-erect a firm economic basis for the raising of children.
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BERGMANN, Barbara Rose was born in 1927 in New York City, New York, United States of America. Daughter of Martin and Nellie Berman.
Bachelor, Cornell University, 1948. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1959.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), De Montford University, 1996. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Muhlenberg College, 2000.
Economics, United States Bureau Labor Stats, New York Regional Office, 1949-1953. Teaching Fellow Economics, Instructor Economics, Harvard University, 1954-1958, 1958-1961. Senior Research Association, Harvard Economics Research Project, 1960-1961.
Economics, New York Metropolitan Region Study, 1957-61. Senior Staff Economics, United States President's Council Economics Advisers, 1961-1962. Association Professor of Economics, Brandeis University, 1962-64.
Senior Staff, Brookings Institute, Institution, 1963-1965. Senior Economics Adviser, Agency International Development, United States Department State, 1966-1967. Association Professor of Economics, University Maryland, 1965-1971.
Professor of Economics, University Maryland, Maryland, United States of America, since 1971. Editorial Boards, American Economic Review,
1970-1973, Challenge, Signs, Women and Politics.
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My principal interests lie in the fields of sex roles in economic life, in the use of computer simulation of economic systems as an alternative to economic theory as currently practised, and in the reform of the methods of data collection. What unifies these interests is a dissatisfaction with economic study as currently practised.
My work on sex roles has been designed to elucidate the caste-like character of assignments to economic role by sex, and to chart out a more just and humane future. Another focus of my work in the sex-role field has been the causes, form and effect of discrimination in the labour market.
My work in computer simulation has produced a group of smaller models of dynamic processes: labour force entry of wives, labour turnover as a generator of unemployment durations, inventory accumulation as a mode of avoidance of customer loss, changes in product characteristics in a monopolistically competitive industry (the latter two are still in draft). I have also engaged in building a large model which deals with macroeconomic phenomena (Gross National Product, production, employment, inflation), but which is built up from computer code which describes the activity of individual business firms and individual consumer-workers.
In my presidential address to the Eastern Economic Association, I criticised current practice, in which economists have contact with the real world of economic actors in only two ways: by throwing into our computers the thirdhand data we get in the form of government statistics, and through introspection while sitting in our chairs. I believe the lack of first-hand data-gathering work to be at the root of much of what is nonproductive in our professional practice.
I have recently started to perform research myself in which direct contact with economic actors is a feature.
Member Economists for McGovern, 1977. Member panel economic advisors Congressional Budget Office, Washington, 1977-1987. Member price advisory committee United States council on Wage and Price Stability, 1979-1980.
Fellow: National Academy Political and Social Science. Member: American Association of University Professors (council 1980-1983, president 1990-1992), Stanford University Center Poverty & Inequality (associate since 2007), American Sociological Asnn., Society Advancement Socio-Economics (president 1995-1996), International Association Feminist Economics 1999, Eastern Economic Association 1974, American Economic Association (vice president 1976, advisory committee to United States Census Bureau 1977-1982).
Married Fred H. Bergmann, July 16, 1965. Children: Sarah Nellie, David Martin.