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Reviews

'American federalism has many faces, both bountiful and miserly, beneficent and malicious. Sadly, as Holes in the Safety Net shows, America’s poor too often see its darkest face. Fortunately, the experts whose work animates this powerful book also light the path to a better federalism for the nation’s most vulnerable citizens.'

Jacob S. Hacker - Yale University, Connecticut, co-author of Winner-Take-All Politics and American Amnesia and author of The Great Risk Shift

'This volume brings together the most important and influential scholars investigating poverty and the government programs designed to assist those living in it. The book is a must-read for anyone trying to understand why poverty persists in the one of richest countries in the world.'

Khiara M. Bridges - Boston University and author of The Poverty of Privacy Rights

'This fine collection illuminates the important role that the legal profession has come to play in defining and defending a rights-basis for our social policies that deal with poverty and inequality.'

Francis Fox Piven - City University of New York and co-author of Regulating the Poor and Poor People’s Movements