False Promises

December 2, 2004 | This article appeared in the December 20, 2004 edition of The Nation.

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In American Dream, his masterful new book about welfare reform, Jason DeParle brings together two groups of people who rarely seem to meet: welfare policy-makers and welfare recipients.

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