A third way perspective -- Employment growth: it's strengths and limitations -- Evaluating targeted policies -- Combating racial earnings disparities -- Combating gender earnings disparities -- Refocusing community college programs -- Strengthening partnerships -- Revising government tax...

This paper responds to Karen Christopher's recent Feminist Economics paper that posits that welfare leavers did not benefit much financially during the Clinton-era economic boom. On the contrary, this paper finds that child poverty rates declined dramatically as did material hardships while the...