Table of Contents

* Prologue A Generous Revolution * The Kennedy Transition * The System Is to Blame * Implementing the Elite Wisdom Being Poor, Being Black: 19501980 * Poverty * Employment * Wages and Occupations * Education * Crime * The Family * The View from 1966 Interpreting The Data * The Scoial Scientists and the Great Experiment * Incentives to Fail I: Maximizing Short-Term Gains * The Destruction of Status Rewards Rethinking Social Policy * What do we want to Accomplish? * The Constraints on Helping * Choosing a Future

About the Author

Charles Murray is a Bradley Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the author of The Bell Curve.