Saving Our Children from Poverty
Subtitle: What the United States Can Learn from France
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780871541147
Subjects: Family welfare; Poverty; Comparative Social Systems; Services For Children; Sociology; United States; Business/Economics; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Europe - France; Child welfare; France; Government policy
Description: Saving Our Children From Poverty compares the American aversion to national assistance programs with the French commitment to child well-being. Americans' lack of faith in the federal government, a growing resistance to taxation, and a belief that financial support encourages irresponsibility have weakened support for U.S. welfare programs.

Saving Our Children From Poverty illustrates what a nation no wealthier than ours can realistically accomplish and concludes with a viable blueprint for successfully applying aspects of France's system to the United States. Its insights may help us to realize the importance of helping America's most undeserving poor.