Welfare reform was supposed to end welfare as we know it. And it
has. The welfare poor have been largely transformed into the
working poor but their poverty persists. This hard-hitting book
takes a close look at where we've gone wrong and where we might go
next if we truly want to improve the lot of America's underclass.
Tracing the roots of recent reforms to the early days of the war
on poverty, A Poverty of Imagination describes a social welfare
system grown increasingly inept, corrupt, and susceptible to
conservative redesign. Author David Stoesz details the new ideas,
hatched in conservative think tanks of the eighties and elaborated
through state experiments in welfare reform, that provided the
outline for the 1996 Federal Welfare Act. Welfare-to-work and other
behavioral objectives were the basis of these reforms; and an
informed skepticism about such approaches is at the heart of
Stoesz's book. Investigating the causes of the ongoing failure of
welfare assistance, Stoesz focuses on the economic barriers that
impede movement out of poverty into the American mainstream.
Stoesz suggests that a form of "bootstrap capitalism" would
allow individuals and families to participate more fully in
American society and achieve upward economic mobility and
stability. This proposal, emphasizing wage supplements, asset
building, and community capitalism, sets the stage for the next act
in poverty policy in the United States. With its valuable insights
on the American welfare system and its positive agenda for change,
this book makes a significant intervention in our ongoing struggle
to come to terms with widespread poverty in the wealthiest nation
on earth.
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