Moving Up and Out

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"There is no reason that this wonderful idea can't work in places beyond Arkansas. Local businesses, foundations, churches, civic organizations, and private citizens can join together to form their own scholarship funds and their own committees, designed to help single parents in their communities lift themselves and their families out of poverty on a permanent basis." -From the Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton, founding Board President of the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund "Holyfield looks realistically at what education can and cannot do in relation to upward mobility for poor women. She attends carefully to race and gender. I am persuaded by what I take to be her main argument: that education really does make a difference in terms of income and job opportunities and the chance to get ahead." -Susan Ostrander, Professor of Sociology, Tufts University and author of Money for Change and Women of the Upper Class "Moving Up and Out is a well-written celebration of a program and the success of specific individuals, rather than an analysis of poverty. The book's strengths are its detailed discussion of the program, followed by hints for how to start one like it and the actual voices of the women, detailing how poverty itself and the welfare system affect them day-to-day. It will be useful to activists, policy makers, and general audiences." -Dr. Lynda Ames, Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, and co-author of Women Reformed, Women Empowered (Temple)