What Can Be Done About Poverty?

One of the many useful by-products of the War on Poverty was the revival of interest in greater economic and political equality. Although initiated by Michael Harrington and other socialist writers on poverty, the revival came about because researchers and practitioners in the antipoverty program realized that most poor people in America suffered less from extreme material deprivation than from having fewer of the basic goods, services, and rights that make up the standard of living enjoyed b...