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Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children
Greg J. Duncan, Aletha C. Huston, and Thomas S. Weisner
Russell Sage Foundation,
2007
- 176 pages, $24.95
- ISBN-13 / ISBN-10: 978-0-87154-325-7 / 978-0-87154-325-7
New Hope was an ambitious experiment in helping the poor and near-poor.
Higher Ground brings
out its full significance and potential,
especially by showing
the effects on families and children.
The authors make visible
what rebuilding the welfare state
around employment might
mean.”
— Lawrence M. Mead ,
Professor of Politics, New York
University
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