Dick Mendel

Why has helping the single, childless workers become the darling of poverty policy?

Forty years ago, as Marian Wright Edelman and her fellow pioneers at the Child Development Group of Mississippi were organizing sharecroppers, fending off Jim Crow, and cobbling together a model for the nation’s Head Start program, Betty Hart and Todd Risley were up in Kansas City working on an early childhood program of their own. […]