A generous revolution. The Kennedy transition ; "The system is to blame" ; Implementing the elite wisdom -- Being poor, being black : 1950-1980. Poverty ; Employment ; Wages and occupations ; Education ; Crime ; The family ; The view from 1966 -- Interpreting the data. The social scientists and the great experiment ; Incentives to fail I : maximizing short-term gains ; Incentives to fail II : crime and education ; The destruction of status rewards -- Rethinking social policy. What do we want to accomplish? ; The constraints on helping ; Choosing a future.
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