Banking Crisis: reforming corporate governance and pay in the City
In 1997, both the underlying confidence and optimism are hard to sustain. The War on
Poverty and its successor programs seem to have made little impact on those populations
that are at the lowest economic levels in U.S. society. If anything, the widening income
distribution and the curbing of governmental expenditures for these groups have left
them worse off. Yet one result of the efforts to address poverty in the intervening years
has been the growth of well-articulated theoretical notions coupled with serious efforts
to ground these ideas in empirical analysis. Much of the work does not specifically speak
to urban poverty or the conditions of life...