‘ENDING WELFARE’ IN MILWAUKEE

“[Matthew] Desmond notes only in passing that Milwaukee, the city he concentrates on, has been widely celebrated for ‘ending welfare’—slashing the rolls with time limits and work requirements—a strategy that some officials would apply to the rest of the safety net. That he finds so much misery suggests the verdict of success needs revisiting.”

Jason DeParle, “Kicked Out in America!” a review in the New York Review (March 10, 2016, pp:25-27) of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond.