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The Check Is in the Mail
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State by Charles Murray. AEI Press, 140 pages, $20. In his 1984 book, Losing Ground, Charles Murray attacked the welfare...
Conflicting Worlds of Welfare Reform
The welfare reform that Congress passed last year ends unlimited federal aid to poor families and limits families to five years on the welfare rolls. Control of welfare is...
Always Among Us
The Urban Underclass Edited by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson Brookings Institution Publications, 490 pages, $34.95 Inner-City Poverty in the United States Edited by Lawrence E. Lynn, Jr....
Race and Urban Politics
The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by jim sleeper w. w. norton, 345 pages, $21.95 Most Americans have the sense that something...
Poverty and Morality
The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare by michael b. katz pantheon books, 293 pages, $22.95 In The Undeserving Poor, there are two...
