It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty - Updated Edition

(Paperback, Updated Edition)

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Provides an antidote to scapegoating, guesswork, and outright misinformation of welfare debates. Demonstrating that government aid has been far more effective, this book explains that even private support for the poor depends extensively on public funds. It states that it takes a nation to fight a problem as pervasive and subtle as modern poverty.

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Winner of the 1997 Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Princeton University's Industrial Relations Section One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998 "[Blank] examines the condition of America's poor and the policies used to help them. She argues plausibly that trade is only one of the factors pressing down on the wages of the unskilled."--The Economist "Even those who disagree strongly with Blank's analysis should agree that It Takes a Nation takes a prize for honest, meticulous, and morally alert scholarship."--John J. Dilulio, Jr., The Weekly Standard "An important book on poverty bound to displease some liberals while challenging both libertarian and cultural conservatives to rethink, if not abandon, their respective anti-poverty positions... Even those who disagree strongly with Blank's analysis should agree that It Takes a Nation takes a prize for honest, meticulous, and morally alert scholarship."--John J. DiIulio, Jr., The Weekly Standard

Author Bio

Rebecca M. Blank is Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, where she directed the Joint Center for Poverty Research. She is currently on leave serving as a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton Administration.