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Poverty
Articles from The Atlantic Monthly's archive and related links "The Abolitionist" (June 2004) Bush's homelessness czar has some new ideas. Will liberals listen? By Douglas McGray "The $6,000 Solution" (January/February 2003) The United States is more unequal than at any other time since the dawn of the New Deal—indeed, it's the most unequal society in the advanced democratic world. Here's how to fix that. By Ray Boshara "The Black Gender Gap" (January/February 2003) It may be the greatest policy achievement in recent history: over the past decade significant numbers of formerly welfare-dependent black women have successfully entered the work force. But what about black men? By Katherine Boo "The Hidden Side of the Clinton Economy" (October 1998) The official government measures of unemployment and poverty disguise the fact that millions of Americans can't make a decent living. By John E. Schwarz "The Next Liberalism" (April 1997) "Just as the brave new world of welfare reform descends upon the dependent poor, Rebecca Blank, a labor economist at Northwestern University, publishes It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty—a book whose forward-looking subtitle belies its touchingly nostalgic message." By Theda Skocpol "The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done" (March 1997) A Clinton appointee who resigned in protest over the new welfare law explains why it is so bad and suggests how its worst effects could be mitigated. By Peter Edelman "Urban Affairs: Good News!" (January 1997) From Boston to San Franscisco the community-based housing movement is transforming bad neighborhoods. By Alexander von Hoffman "The Other Underclass" (December 1991) Most people think of inner-city poverty as a black phenomenon. But it is also alarmingly high among Puerto Ricans, the worst-off ethnic group in the country—even though Puerto Rico itself has made great progress against poverty and there is a growing Puerto Rican middle-class on the mainland. By Nicholas Lemann "The Unfinished War [Part 1]" (December 1988) A product of the conflicting ambitions of the men who shaped it, the War on Poverty was ill-fated—but its fate need not be that of all anti-poverty programs. By Nicholas Lemann "The Unfinished War [Part 2]" (January 1989) An inside look at how personal enmity, political calculation, and policy misjudgments prevented any effective prosecution of the War on Poverty by either Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon. By Nicholas Lemann "The Key to Welfare Reform" (June 1987) Recent history shows that getting long-term recipients off the rolls is the only way to reduce public-assistance costs. By David Whitman "The Origins of the Underclass [Part 1]" (July 1986) The flight of middle-class blacks from ghettos has left a disastrously isolated underclass—one formed less by welfare or a lack of jobs than by its rural-South heritage. By Nicholas Lemann "The Origins of the Underclass [Part 2]" (July 1986) Black urban ghettos are poorer and more isolated today than they have ever been. The question remaining is how to reverse the effects of what has become a self-sustaining culture. By Nicholas Lemann "Housing: Examining a Media Myth" (October 1983) The "new poor" and homeless discovered by the press a few months ago seem to have vanished; meanwhile, the real poor still need help. By Gregg Easterbrook "Welfare: The Best of Intentions, The Worst of Results" (August 1971) "We do not like to think that our instincts of social compassion might have dismal consequences—not accidentally but inexorably. We simply cannot believe that the universe is so constituted. We much prefer, if a choice has to be made, to have a good opinion of mankind and a poor opinion of our socioeconomic system." By Irving Kristol More on this issue from Atlantic Unbound: Roundtable: "Welfare: Where Do We Go From Here?" Related Links Project Vote Smart's Welfare, Poverty and Homelessness Issues Resource Page Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the Issues - An Urban Institute Report Focus - a publication on poverty-related research, issues, and events, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty Welfare and Families: EPN's Recommended Links Copyright © 2001 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. |
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