Urban Illusions: New Approaches to Inner City Unemployment

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Urban Illusions is the best first-hand account I know of the struggle to solve the employment problem in American cities. Mike Bernick combines a knowledge of the issues as seen from Washington with actual experience leading anti-poverty programs at the local level, a rare combination. He writes extremely well, and he makes shrewd suggestions for where employment policy should go from here. Anybody interested in American social policy will find this book invaluable. Lawrence M. Mead, Author of Beyond Entitlement Urban Illusions goes beyond description of inner city unemployment to consider efforts to reduce the problem. It directly examines the successes and failures that have resulted from past attempts to reduce employment. Although the volume includes data on poverty and government anti-poverty programs, it is written from the perspective of one working on a local, grass-roots level: author Michael Bernick is the founder and executive Director of this outstanding inner city employment program.

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It will be compelling reading for federal, state, and local practitioners in job training, business persons participating in private industry councils, and students and professionals of urban studies, public policy, and urban/regional economics.-Recent Publications on Social Problems
Urban Illusions is the best first-hand account I know of the struggle to solve the employment problem in American cities. Mike Bernick combines a knowledge of the issues as seen from Washington with actual experience leading anti-poverty programs at the local level, a rare combination. He writes extremely well, and he makes shrewd suggestions for where employment policy should go from here. Anybody interested in American social policy will find this book valuable. This book has genuine substance, and deserves a wide reading.-Lawrence M. Mead Author of Beyond Entitlement Perspective
"It will be compelling reading for federal, state, and local practitioners in job training, business persons participating in private industry councils, and students and professionals of urban studies, public policy, and urban/regional economics."-Recent Publications on Social Problems
"Urban Illusions is the best first-hand account I know of the struggle to solve the employment problem in American cities. Mike Bernick combines a knowledge of the issues as seen from Washington with actual experience leading anti-poverty programs at the local level, a rare combination. He writes extremely well, and he makes shrewd suggestions for where employment policy should go from here. Anybody interested in American social policy will find this book valuable. This book has genuine substance, and deserves a wide reading."-Lawrence M. Mead Author of Beyond Entitlement Perspective

Author Bio

MICHAEL BERNICK is Executive Director of San Francisco Renaissance and Instructor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.