Facts We Dare Not Forget: Excerpts from a Neglected Government Report on Poverty & Unemployment

Facts We Dare Not Forget: Excerpts from a Neglected Government Report on Poverty & Unemployment

In June 1980 the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity, under the chairmanship of Arthur I. Blaustein, submitted its Twelfth Report, Critical Choices for the Eighties, to President Carter (available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402).

We have culled a few pages that concern poverty and unemployment from the 174 pp. Report (deleting all but two of the footnotes that cite the literature). Most likely, the C...