Aiming to challenge the liberal political thinking that built the welfare state, the authors develop a blueprint for a War on Poverty, utilising a different approach to strengthen African American families. They apply various techniques of public finance to enlist financial institutions in deploying urban capital into rebuilding cities.

In direct challenge to the liberal political thinking that built the welfare state, John Kenneth Blackwell and Jerome Corsi have developed a blueprint for a new War on Poverty, utilizing an innovative approach to mobilizing urban capital to strengthen African American families, build wealth through meaningful employment among those now in poverty, and develop America's urban landscape without imposing additional tax burdens on the American people.