Child Poverty

Within the next few pages here I intend to address two issues. First I will try to give a personal review of what I saw this book to hold, and second I will try explain the revelence which this book has to the field of Public Administration. First try to picture children in a slum where the squalor in their homes is just as bad as that which is in the streets. Where prostitution is …

…takes place. I believe that Kozol has written a amazing piece of work here. Amazing Grace asks questions that are at once political and theological. What is the value of a child's life? What exactly do we plan to do with those whom we appear to have defined as economically and humanly disadvantaged? How cold, how cruel, how tough -- do we dare be? Why do we not seem to be able to fix it?