Confronting Poverty: Prescriptions for Change

'Confronting Poverty' proposes thoughtful reforms in employment and training, child support, health care, education, welfare, immigration, and urban policies, all crafted from the successes, as well as the failures, of policies over the past three decades.

William J. Hutchison - Social Thought

This is a very balanced and informative study that provides an historical perspective on what has happened to poverty in the United States since its eradication first became a goal of public policy.

Sheldon Danziger is Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Gary Sandefur is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Daniel H. Weinberg is an economist with the Office of Income Security Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.