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In 2005, when he wrote Social Solutions to Poverty, Myers-Lipton (San Jose State U.) would have put public and civic works near the bottom of effective solutions for poverty in the US, he says, but then came Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the collapse of a bridge in Minnesota and a dam in Hawaii, the switch turned off in the entire northeast, and the evaporation of the financial economy. Here he explains why the country needs civic works now, reviewing the problems and how civic works solved them 75 years ago, the work of student and faculty activists in the Gulf Coast, views of specialists in public policy and economic development, and the notion of an economic bill of rights. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
