A potential update to welfare reform is no substitute for poverty reduction.
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Lessons from the Poverty Front
Twenty-five years ago this month, in a faraway liberal country, a government agency called the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) was established by an act of Congress. It survived under that name for one stormy decade, and a remnant of it limped along under a different name (the Community Services Administration) until the first year […]
Posted inDecember 1987, Magazine
The Slum Behind the Sheraton
A Philippine struggle between Marcos loyalists, Marxist youth, and a woman with 2,000 eggs in her living room.
