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As Americans experiment with dismantling the nation's welfare system, clichés and slogans proliferate, ranging from charges that the poor are simply lazy to claims that existing antipoverty programs have failed completely. In this impeccably researched book, Rebecca Blank provides the definitive antidote to the scapegoating, guesswork, and outright misinformation of today's welfare debates. Demonstrating that government aid has been far more effective than most people think, she also explains that even private support for the poor depends extensively on public funds. It takes a nation to fight a problem as pervasive and subtle as modern poverty, and this book argues that we should continue to implement a mix of private and public programs. Federal, state, and local assistance should go hand in hand with private efforts at community development and personal empowerment and change.

The first part of the book investigates the changing nature of poverty in America. Poverty is harder to combat now than in the past, both because of the changing demographics of who is poor as well as the major deterioration in earnings among less-skilled workers. The second part of the book delves into policies designed to reduce poverty, presenting evidence that many though not all programs have done exactly what they set out to do. The final chapters provide an excellent review of recent policy changes and make workable suggestions for how to improve public assistance programs to assure a safety net, while still encouraging poor adults to find employment and support their families.

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0691004013
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978-0691004013
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Princeton University Press
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September 28, 1998
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Chock full of useful information, but tough to read

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I really wanted to give this book a 5 star rating. It does a spectacular job of synthesizing information from many sources to describe the current state (as of 1995) of poverty in America, the existing programs targeting poverty reduction, and laying out a platform for future programs. It is one of the few books to not only describe what is wrong now, but also make useful, pragmatic suggestions for future improvement. I applaud all of that. I did have to take away one star as the book is incredibly dense reading. I could see how it would make a useful textbook in conjunction with class discussions, but as a book in my field of interest I picked up one day, it took me an incredibly long time to read. It seems that the facts all blur together into a mass of data with commentary in between. I don't think I could have done any better, mind you, but I can't wholly recommend it due to that.

The book also does an excellent job debunking many common myths with facts and data - eliminating the presumptions of readers that all poor want to be poor, sit around and collect huge checks, then spend the money on whatever they want. I wish I could convince everyone with a negative opinion of the poor to read this and see, as facts, that most of their assumptions are wrong.

The conclusion seems to be - though wages have gone up, they haven't budged for the uneducated and poorest, so they are falling even further behind. We need to do something about this - as current programs and the wave of anti-poor rhetoric isn't solving the problem.

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good ideas and easy reading

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Rebecca Blank is an authority on what she is writing about. Further, her ideas are very good ones, similar to what other experts are saying. In addition, she is a very good writer and generally easy reading--no confusing statistics and graphs. Even though this is not a very recent book, it should be read by anyone interested in poverty in this country.

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Comprehensive new anti-poverty agenda

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In a recent issue of Radical Middle, a newsletter published by Mark Satin, the lead article was entitled "Left, right and evangelicals hammer our holistic anti-poverty agenda". This book was one of three that was most highly recommended.
"Today, for the first time in three decades, comprehensive new anti-poverty agendas are being proposed by prominent scholars and civic leaders. And they're about as different from the "entitlements"-based agendas of the Sixties as can be imagined.
"They're infinitely more sensitive to the totality of the problems of the poor.
"They involve a lot more entities than the Federal government.
"They're more supervisory (some might say "paternalistic" or "maternalistic"), but at the same time less bureaucratic, more responsive to individual poor people's unique situations.
"And they're not just coming from one end of the political spectrum! OF the three most promising agendas from the last three years, one is from a leading radical-liberal scholar, Rebecca M. Blank, former director of the Joint Center for Poverty Research at Northwestern University (this book)
"Another is from a leading conservative scholar, Lawrence M Mead -- one of the token conservatives at New York University -- working in colloaboration with the Brookiings Institution (Mead, ed., The New Paternalism: Supervisory Approaches to Poverty, 1997)
"And the third is from a thrologian whose politics can best be described as "radical middle" -- Ronald J. Sider, President of Evangelicals for Social Action. Sider, who's lived, taught, and ministered in poor and working class neighborhoods in Philadelphia for 30 years, got former Nixon aide Chuck Colson to write a foreword to the agenda. (Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America, 1999)"
-- from Radical Middle, Center for Visionary Law, Business and Public Policy, Inc. PO Box 57100 Washington, DC

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Comprehensive and balanced

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 1999

This is one of the best books which I have ever read. This is very balanced and comprehensive. She emphasized the diversity of the domestic poverty problems. She mentioned not only policies or economics but also urban structure, the features of welfare institutions and so on. This is well-organazied and easy to understand. I recommend all people who are interested in the domestic poverty problems to read this book.

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