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When Helping Hurts
How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
by Brian Fikkert and by Steve Corbett

ISBN: 0-8024-5705-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-8024-5705-9
Price: $14.99
# of Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the use of strategies that do considerable harm to poor people and themselves. When Helping Hurts provides foundational concepts, clearly articulated general principles and relevant applications. The result is an effective and holistic ministry to the poor, not a truncated gospel.

A situation is assessed for whether relief, rehabilitation, or development is the best response to a situation. Efforts are characterized by an "asset based" approach rather than a "needs based" approach. Short term mission efforts are addressed and microenterprise development (MED) is explored

Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do about It
by Star Parker
$14.98
paperback
Publisher Marketing: America has two economic systems: capitalism for the rich and socialism for the poor. This double-minded approach seems to keep the poor enslaved to poverty while the rich get richer. Let's face it, despite its $400 billion price tag, welfare isn't working. The solution, asserts Star Parker, is a faith-based, not state-sponsored, plan. In "Uncle Sam's Plantation," she offers five simple yet profound steps that will allow the nation's poor to go from entitlement and slavery to empowerment and freedom. Parker shares her own amazing journey up from the lower rungs of the economic system and addresses the importance of extending the free market system to this neglected group of people. Emphasizing personal initiative, faith, and responsibility, she walks readers toward releasing the hold poverty has over their lives

Title: Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem

Author: Jay W. Richards

Price: 24.95

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0061375616

Comments: I highly recommend this book. Jay Richards does a masterful job of explaining how capitalism helps each one of us. He explains how to build a free and virtuous society and how a general prosperity helps the poor also. A must read.

Bernie Davis

Title: The Tragedy of American Compassion

Author: Marvin Olasky

Price: $18.00

Format: Paperback

comment: A richly documented, controversial history of the welfare state.... --Publishers Weekly