It Takes a Nation
It Takes a Nation As Americans experiment with dismantling the nation's welfare system, clich s and slogans proliferate, ranging from charges that the poor are simply lazy to claims that existing…
Specifikacia It Takes a Nation
It Takes a Nation
As Americans experiment with dismantling the nation's welfare system, clich s and slogans proliferate, ranging from charges that the poor are simply lazy to claims that existing antipoverty programs have failed completely. 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. In this impeccably researched book, Rebecca Blank provides the definitive antidote to the scapegoating, guesswork, and outright misinformation of today's welfare debates.
Federal, state, and local assistance should go hand in hand with private efforts at community development and personal empowerment and 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.