Product Description: Fighting Poverty with VirtueMoral Reform and America’s Urban Poor, 1825–2000Joel SchwartzThe emergence, decline, and resurgence of moral reform in addressing urban poverty in theUnited States.This book is both a historical and a contemporary study of attempts to promote the self-reliance and prosperity of America’s urban poor by encouraging the practice of familiar virtues such as diligence, sobriety, thrift, and familial responsibility...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cries for the elimination of welfare rise at the very time that the amount of poverty in the United States grows.  And the Poor Get Welfare is an ethical and theological analysis of both of these realities.  It sets the context for this analysis by surveying the current situation and the histories of poverty and welfare as public policy issues in the United States...read more