Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty

by John Goering, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Susan Popkin, et al.

Book Overview

Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great, unresolved question of how to overcome persistent ghetto poverty. Launched in 1994, the MTO program took a largely untested approach: helping families move from high-poverty, inner-city public housing to low-poverty neighborhoods, some in the suburbs. The book's innovative methodology emphasizes the voices and choices of the program's participants but also rigorously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195392841
• ISBN13: 9780195392845
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"