Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, speaking for a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court in the University of Michigan affirmative-action case, declared, “We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary … .” What would it take for that to become a reality? In what we might call […]
Lisbeth Schorr
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What Works: Applying What We Already Know About Successful Social Policy
Three decades of anti-poverty policy have shed much light on the best strategies for helping families.

