The Alternative: Most of What You Believe About Poverty Is Wrong

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INTRODUCTION Disrupting the deficit view SECTION I A Fundamentally Flawed Social Service System CHAPTER ONE The Challenge No pity parties here CHAPTER TWO No Welfare Queens Unsticking the myth that families are “stuck” CHAPTER THREE Privilege and its Opposite Berkeley, a bizarre out of body experience CHAPTER FOUR The Ultimate Sacrifice ‘Inspiring revolution with a chicken and two potatoes’ CHAPTER FIVE A Race to the Bottom Replacing the war on poverty with a dating service CHAPTER SIX Us and Them “The walls are just high enough so the people we are talking about can’t hear us talking about them” CHAPTER SEVEN Undermining Family and Village ‘Paternalists advance people’s interests at the expense of their liberty’ SECTION II The Alternative Put families in the driver’s seat CHAPTER EIGHT Following Peer Paths “That’s not the way it’s done!” CHAPTER NINE Positive Deviance and Epidemics Instead of foam in the ocean, you get a wave CHAPTER TEN Modeling the Alternative The Basics of the Family Independence Initiative CHAPTER ELEVEN The Right (data) Stuff The thousand cars doing the right thing CHAPTER TWELVE Making the Invisible, Visible Contributions by the bottom 2/5ths of our economy CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE ALTERNATIVE Resurrecting the American Dream CHAPTER FOURTEEN Epilogue Would my mother approve? Acknowledgements Notes