A compassionate America has spent more than $5 trillion on welfare
programs over three decades, but the poor haven't vanished, and the
self-destructive behavior that imprisons many in poverty has become
an intergenerational inheritance. Drawing on the City Journal's
superlative reporting, What Makes Charity Work? shows in concrete
and compelling detail how government assistance to the poor is
doomed to failure - because it treats them as victims of forces
beyond their control, robs them of a sense of personal
responsibility, and neglects the virtues they need to escape
poverty. Contrasting case studies of charities both old and new
show how charity can succeed spectacularly when it encourages the
poor to take control of their own lives and teaches them habits of
self-reliance and the traditional virtues. Here are accounts of
charities that follow these precepts and have not only brought
individuals into the economic and social mainstream but have
delivered whole classes of people from poverty and degradation into
the middle class in a single generation. As welfare reform unfolds,
and as the nation calculates how to implement the "charitable
choice" provision of the 1996 welfare reform act that allows
government to use private and religious charities in helping the
poor, policymakers and concerned Americans will find both
encouraging and cautionary case studies in What Makes Charity Work?
Here is an urgent issue considered in vivid, practical, and
unfailingly absorbing fashion.
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