Volume 35, Number 15 · October 13, 1988
Getting Rough on the Poor
By Andrew Hacker
The Family Security Act of 1988 ("The Moynihan Bill")
Report of the Committee on Finance, US Senate
US Government Printing Office, 190 pp., Free
Creating the Future: The Massachusetts Comeback and Its Promise for America
by Michael S. Dukakis, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Summit Books, 190 pp., $17.95
Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family
by David T. Ellwood
Basic Books, 271 pp., $19.95
Challenge To Leadership: Economic and Social Issues for the Next Decade
edited by Isabel V. Sawhill
Urban Institute Press, 326 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Laboratories of Democracy
by David Osborne
Harvard Business School Press, 380 pp., $24.95
The New Consensus on Family and Welfare
edited by Michael Novak et al.
American Enterprise Institute, 143 pp., $9.75 (paper)
Remaking the Welfare State: Retrenchment and Social Policy in America and Europe
edited by Michael K. Brown
Temple University Press, 312 pp., $34.95
Both political parties and most legislators now agree that Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the program commonly called 'welfare,' needs radical reform. The Democratic platform pledges to 'help people move from welfare to work.' The Republicans also say they will 'reform welfare to encourage work as the ticket that guarantees full participation in American life.' Indeed, the GOP now accepts that if single mothers are to become self-supporting, they will need subsidized child care. And Michael Dukakis, in a manifesto of his own published earlier this year, urges his Massachusetts employment-training program as a model for the nation.
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