Article: Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History.

Michael B. Katz. Princeton. 179pp. $22.50.

A considerable number of books have appeared this season on poverty in the United States, and especially on poverty in our inner cities. They are linked by a common subject matter and by a shared feeling that the situation of the poor in this bitter time is desperate, but they reflect a wide variety of visions, preoccupations and approaches. I would like to comment on four of them here.

Herbert J. Gans has been writing about urban poverty with eminent sanity for a number of years. He calls his new book The War Against the Poor, but, as he is quick to point out, his real topic is "the war of words" against the poor. ...

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