(Paperback)

Why have American governments proved unable to redesign a welfare system that will satisfy anyone Are there constructive ways to think about welfare, poverty, and public education This book shows how interpretations of the past, grounded in analytic history, can free us of comforting myths and help us to reframe discussions of these issues.

(Paperback)

A collection of essays, which focus not on individual and family behavior but on a complex set of processes that have been at work over a long period, degrading the inner cities and, inevitably, the nation as a whole.