What if we reclaimed âwelfareâ as well-beingâand treated it as the infrastructure of democracy? In American Welfare: Reclaiming the Dream for All of U.S., Tracy Evans explores how cultural narratives about poverty and deservingness shaped Americaâs public systemsâand how redesigning those systems with fairness, belonging, and trust at the center can strengthen democracy itself. Drawing on history, social science, and decades of leadership in human services, Evans offers a hopeful, forward-looking vision: the measure of our democracy is how well our people fareâand we can build it to serve all of us.
What if we reclaimed âwelfareâ as well-beingâand treated it as the infrastructure of democracy? In American Welfare: Reclaiming the Dream for All of U.S., Tracy Evans explores how cultural narratives about poverty and deservingness shaped Americaâs public systemsâand how redesigning those systems with fairness, belonging, and trust at the center can strengthen democracy itself. Drawing on history, social science, and decades of leadership in human services, Evans offers a hopeful, forward-looking vision: the measure of our democracy is how well our people fareâand we can build it to serve all of us.