Journal of Economic Literature
Book Reviews
2026-09-01
Patricia M. Anderson of Dartmouth College reviews “Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children” by Greg J. Duncan, Aletha C. Huston, Thomas S. Weisner,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Explores how the city of Milwaukee's New Hope program can serve as a model for national antipoverty policies. Discusses creating New Hope; participants; the evaluation; work and poverty; children; families; New Hope's lessons; and New Hope and national policy. Duncan is Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy and Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Huston is Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Child Development and Fellow in the Population Research Institute at the University of Texas, Austin. Weisner is Professor of Anthropology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Index.”