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Of Heart and Mind

Social Policy Essays in Honor of Sar A. Levitan

Garth Mangum, University of Utah and Stephen Mangum, Ohio State University, Editors

(The first chapter of this book is available in PDF format.)

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Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, 1996
Industrial Relations Section - Princeton University

A devoted public servant and educator, Sar Levitan spent a lifetime trying to improve social policy on behalf of the nation's disadvantaged. Over the decades, he invariably impressed -- and sometimes frustrated -- members of both Democratic and Republican administrations with his objectivity and forthrightness. Yet, as five former U.S. Secretaries of Labor and Commerce put it in the book's foreword, "The world was better for Sar Levitan having been in it and suffers to the same degree from his absence."

The essays in this volume, authored by close friends, associates and students, pay tribute to Levitan and the enduring mark he left on the field of social policy. The book is loosely organized around the method of analysis taught and practiced by Levitan: identifying problems through the examination of facts, developing a thorough understanding of institutions, assessing institutional policies, and evaluating policy options.

It's broad range of fairly non-technical essays makes this an ideal companion text for undergraduate or graduate classes in public policy. Contributions include:

  • Introduction by Stephen Mangum, Ohio State University
  • Secular Rabbi: The Life and Times of Sar A. Levitan by Garth Mangum, University of Utah
  • Young Workers, Young Families, and Child Poverty by Andrew Sum, Northeastern University, Clifford Johnson, Children's Defense Fund, and W. Neal Fogg, Northeastern University
  • Ethnic Differences in School Departure: Does Youth Employment Promote or Undermine Educational Attainment? by Marta Tienda and Avner Ahituv, University of Chicago
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  • Welfare and Work, Christopher T. King and Peter R. Mueser
  • Leaving Welfare, Gregory Acs and Pamela Loprest
  • Helping Working Families: The EITC, Saul D. Hoffman and Laurence S. Seidman
  • Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform, Sheldon H. Danziger, Editor
  • Lessons for Welfare Reform<, Dave M. O'Neill and June Ellenoff O'Neill
  • Poverty and Inequality: The Political Economy of Redistribution, Jon Neill, Editor
  • The Earned Income Tax Credit, Saul D. Hoffman and Laurence S. Seidman
  • Public Service Employment: The Experience of a Decade, Robert F. Cook, Charles F. Adams, and V. Lane Rawlins
    Also visit our Welfare-to-Work Research Hub.
  • MDTA and CETA: A Personal Revisit by Eli Ginzberg, Columbia University
  • Vocational Education Accountability in a Block Grant World by David Stevens, University of Baltimore
  • The Employment Service Revisited by Miriam Johnson, California State Employment Service
  • Contingent Work and the Role of Labor Market Intermediaries by Audrey Freedman, Management Consultant
  • Minimum Wage Policy and Research: What's a Person to Believe? by Stephen Baldwin, KRA Corporation, and Robert Goldfarb, George Washington University
  • Public Sector Job Creation: A Review of Past Experience and its Relevance to the Future by William Grinker, Public Policy and Management Consultant
  • Achieving National Economic and Social Goals: The Counterproductive Role of Post-1965 Immigration Policy by Vernon Briggs Jr., Cornell University
  • The Baby and the Bath Water: Lessons for the Next Employment and Training Program by Burt Barnow, Johns Hopkins University, and Christopher King, University of Texas
  • Towards Quality Programs for At-Risk Youth by Susan Curnan, Brandeis University, Alan Melchior, Brandeis University, and Alan Zuckerman, National Youth Employment Coalition
  • Welfare Reform: Lessons from the JOBS Program by Irene Lurie, State University of New York at Albany, and Coletta Moser, Michigan State University
  • What Should Be Our Human Capital Investment Policy? by James Heckman, University of Chicago
  • Employment and Unemployment Statistics Revisited by Markley Roberts, AFL-CIO
  • The Prospects for Arbitration in the Nonunion Sector by Trevor Bain, University of Alabama

    Also included is Sar Levitan's complete bibliography.

    "This volume is a fitting memorial to a prolific writer, dedicated policy analyst, and unwavering advocate of increased economic opportunities for the low-skilled and underclass." Industrial and Labor Relations Review
    413 pp. 1996
    $25 paper ISBN 0-88099-171-2 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-171-1.
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