Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
Lily Geismer
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Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
Lily Geismer
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... important.
... should make almost any left-of-center reader retroactively furious about the 1990s and the inability of its architects to foresee the twenty-first century they were creating.
By the end of Bill Clinton’s presidency, the poverty rate was the lowest in decades. The U.S. economy was enjoying an unprecedented expansion.
Geismer deftly weaves politics with policy to show how the Democrats reimagined poverty as a market failure.
Historian Geismer...delivers an incisive critique of the Democratic Party’s embrace of 'market-based' solutions to social problems in the 1980s and ’90s.