Synopses & Reviews
Urban IllusionS≪/i> is the best first-hand account I know of the struggle to solve the employment problem in American cities. Mike Bernick combines a knowledge of the issues as seen from Washington with actual experience leading anti-poverty programs at the local level, a rare combination. He writes extremely well, and he makes shrewd suggestions for where employment policy should go from here. Anybody interested in American social policy will find this book invaluable.
Lawrence M. Mead, Author of Beyond Entitlement
Urban IllusionS≪/i> goes beyond description of inner city unemployment to consider efforts to reduce the problem. It directly examines the successes and failures that have resulted from past attempts to reduce employment. Although the volume includes data on poverty and government anti-poverty programs, it is written from the perspective of one working on a local, grass-roots level: author Michael Bernick is the founder and executive Director of this outstanding inner city employment program.
Synopsis
Urban Illusions goes beyond description of inner city unemployment to consider efforts to reduce the problem. It directly examines the successes and failures that have resulted from past attempts to reduce employment. Although the volume includes data on poverty and government anti-poverty programs, it is written from the perspective of one working on a local, grass-roots level: author Michael Bernick is the founder and executive Director of this outstanding inner city employment program.
About the Author
MICHAEL BERNICK is Executive Director of San Francisco Renaissance and Instructor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Table of Contents
Urban Illusions
We Set Out to Reduce Inner City Unemployment
The Limits of Training
Renaissance Looks to the Private Sector
The Agam Painting
Reading and Writing Below the Ninth Grade Level
Unemployment and the Inner Compass
Generating Jobs
Renaissance Goes Into Business
Visions of Business throughout the Antipoverty World
"Big Red's Deli"
When Government Attempts to Create Jobs
Urban Possibilities
Me and Joe Califano: January 1985
Christmas 1985 and beyond
The Possibilities for Job Training
The Possibilities for Inner City Work
The Possibilities for Inner City Entrepreneurship
A Middlemarch Surgeon
Bibliography
Index