A Poverty of Imagination: Bootstrap Capitalism, Sequel to Welfare Reform
by David Stoesz, Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy David Stoesz
Category: Business & Economics

Tracing the roots of recent US reforms to the early days of the war on poverty, this work describes a social welfare system grown inept, corrupt, and susceptible to conservative redesign. It focuses on the economic barriers impeding movement out of poverty into the American mainstream.