The New Social Contract: America's Journey from Welfare State to Police State. (book reviews)

Christopher Howard, College of William & Mary

Compared to our understanding of why certain people are poor or what policies are most effective in fighting poverty, our understanding of the politics of poverty has changed little in recent years. Many analysts still subscribe to the dictum that "programs for the poor are poor programs" that are politically vulnerable, socially stigmatizing, and marginally effective. The chief virtue of The New Social Contract is its ability to provoke the reader into viewing the politics of poverty in a new light, primarily by emphasizing ...

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