Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History

by Michael B . Katz (Author)

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  1997

  $14.96

  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.

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  Paperback
  1997

  $50.56

  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.