Overview
Material hardship among American children has never been lower. This seeming victory in the War on Poverty, however, has failed to loosen the connection between family origins and where kids end up. Children born to the most disadvantaged parents today are no less likely than in the past to become the most disadvantaged adults when they grow up. Indeed, because of the perverse disincentives in our safety net, policy may have simultaneously reduced hardship while impeding upward mobility. More generally, the progressive assumption that what poor children need to advance primarily involves more money is a dubious one.
But if progressive proposals to expand the opportunities of poor kids have disappointed, the challenges those children and adolescents face have never sufficiently preoccupied the right. Conservatives are appropriately skeptical of government’s ability to influence behaviors and values or to manage initiatives effectively. Their concerns about the federal government’s proper role in social policy are well-grounded. But the moral imperative to do right by kids—to affirm the American Dream—remains.
This volume provides a set of ideas to do just that. The proposals are grounded in the insight that greater opportunity requires shoring up the relationships of children and adolescents and the strength of the institutions to which they are connected—in short, rebuilding social capital. And they embrace a spirit of innovation. Expanding opportunity requires experimentation with new approaches, many of which will fail, to identify scalable effective policies. But identify them we must.
This book title, Doing Right by Kids (Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity), ISBN: 9780844750767, by Scott Winship, Yuval Levin, Ryan Streeter, Beth Akers, Preston Cooper, Joshua Crawford, Chester E. Finn Jr., Robert Lerman, John W. Lettieri, Michael Q. McShane, Angela Rachidi, Matt Weidinger, Brad Wilcox, published by AEI Press (September 17, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
Unlike Amazon and other retailers who may also offer Doing Right by Kids (Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity) books on their website, we specialize in large quantities and provide personal service, from trusted, experienced, friendly people in Portland, Oregon. We offer a Price Match Guarantee, and QuickQuote form, to make purchasing quick and easy.
Prefer to work with a human being when you order Doing Right by Kids (Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity) books in bulk? Our Book Specialists are standing by Monday-Friday 8-5 PST, ready to help!