"Urban Illusions" is the best first-hand account I know of the struggle to solve the employment problem in American cities. Mike Bernick combines a knowledge of the issues as seen from Washington with actual experience leading anti-poverty programs at the local level, a rare combination. He writes extremely well, and he makes shrewd suggestions for where employment policy should go from here. Anybody interested in American social policy will find this book invaluable.

"Lawrence M. Mead, Author of Beyond Entitlement"

"Urban Illusions" goes beyond description of inner city unemployment...