Public Policy: Helping the Poor to Be Boss

PUBLIC POLICY

Until 18 months ago, Leo Carter's job was to sweep, mop and polish the floors at Miami Beach's St. Francis Hospital. Today, as proprietor of The Best Floor Waxing Service, he is an entrepreneur with six employees. Mexican-born Joe Garcia, on relief in Manhattan eight months ago, now takes in about $240 a week as the operator of a midtown newsstand. David Flowers, who had to give up his job as a house painter after he injured his back in an auto crash, has become the owner of a thriving eight-pump, seven-employee service station on Chicago's South Side.

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