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Inside Game/Outsite Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America
Inside Game/Outsite Game Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America Author:David Rusk For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline. According to David Rusk, focusing on programs aimed at improving inner-city neighborhoods-playing the "inside game"-is a losing strategy. Achieving r... more »eal improvement requires matching the inside game with a strong "outside game" of regional strategies to overcome growing fiscal disparities, concentrated poverty, and urban sprawl. In this persuasive book filled with personal observations as well as his trademark mastery of census statistics, Rusk argues that state legislatures must set new rules of the game.« less