The End of Welfare: Fighting Poverty in the Civil Society
The End of Welfare: Fighting Poverty in the Civil Society by Michael Tanner
English | Oct. 15, 1996 | ISBN: 1882577388 | 240 Pages | PDF | 28 MB
English | Oct. 15, 1996 | ISBN: 1882577388 | 240 Pages | PDF | 28 MB
Provides a compelling case that the current system cannot be reformed and should be abolished.
Just a few minutes' drive from the White House and Capitol Hill, where welfare policies are made, lie the slums of Washington, D.C., where those policies are carried out. The policies launched by successive presidents and Congresses have had the best of intentions. Yet in the streets of Anacostia, the failure of the welfare state is starkly visible.
That failure can be seen in the faces of unemployed youths selling drugs in the shadows of boarded-up storefronts. It can be seen in teenage mothers dropping out of school and raising children who will end up in poverty themselves. It can be seen in the children— abused, neglected, hungry.