The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty
by
Xavier de Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popkin, John Goering
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great, unresolved question of how to overcome persistent ghetto poverty. Launched in 1994, the MTO program took a largely untested approach: helping families move from high-poverty, inner-city public housing to low-poverty...