The Connection Between Tax Breaks and the Homeless

The Underserving Poor is the second edition of Katz's book on poverty. In his preface he quotes Charles Darwin, who wrote in 1839: "If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin" He asks if we help the homeless too much, do they have less incentive to work? And what are the limits of social responsibility? What do we owe the poor and to each other?