The Poverty of Welfare : Helping Others in the Civil Society

This book suggests that we should be working toward the total elimination of government welfare programs subsitituting a renewed and invigorated program of private charity and economic opportunity. Citing the failure of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, Tanner, director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute, a pubic policy research foundation dedicated to traditional American principles of limited government and individual liberty, argues that the American welfare system should be dismantled rather than reformed. He recommends changes in regulation, taxation, and Social Security. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)