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The Common Good: Social Welfare and the American Future







prepared for the Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future, 1986.

Sum, Andrew, Neal Fogg, and Robert Taggart, "Withered Dreams: The Decline in the Economic Fortunes of Young, Non-College Educated Male Adults and Their Families," paper prepared for the William T. Grant Foundation Commission on Family, Work and Citizenship (Boston: Northeastern University Center for Labor Market Studies, 1988).

Taggart, Robert, The Comprehensive Competencies Program: A New Way to Teach, A New Way to Learn (Washington, D.C.: Remediation and Training Institute, 1986).

Chapter Four-The Working Years: Increasing Economic Opportunity and Social Protection

Blank, Rebecca M., and Alan S. Blinder, "Macroeconomics, Income Distribution and Poverty," in Sheldon H. Danziger and Daniel H. Weinberg (eds.), Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn't (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986).

Coalition on Human Needs, How the Poor Would Remedy Poverty (Washington, D.C.: Coalition on Human Needs, 1988).

Ellwood, Divide and Conquer, op. cit.

Ellwood, David, Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family (New York: Basic Books, 1988).

Friedman, Barry L., and Robert I. Lerman, "The Role of Employer-Provided Benefits in Achieving Social Protections," paper prepared for a seminar on The Role of Employer Benefits in Future Social Welfare Policy, Heller School, Brandeis University, 1989.

Gueron, Reforming Welfare with Work, op. cit.

Gueron, Judith, Work Initiatives for Welfare Recipients: Lessons from a Multi-State Experiment (New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, 1986).

Levitan, Sar, and Isaac Shapiro, Working But Poor: America's Contradictions (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).