CONTENTS

Introduction

1. A Snapshot of Our Current Mess

2. What We Have Accomplished

3. Why Are We Stuck?

4. Jobs: The Economy and Public Policy Go South (for Most of Us)

5. Deep Poverty: A Gigantic Hole in the Safety Net

6. Concentrated Poverty: “The Abandoned”

7. Young People: Improving the Odds

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index