A review of Social Work, Politics and Society: From Radicalism to Orthodoxy by Ken McLaughlin. A review of Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy: Immoral Individualism by Elizabeth A. Throop. Behavioral Theory: Can Mayor Bloomberg pay poor people to do the "right" thing? The poverty of political talk: It's still hard for politicians to speak clearly about the poorest Americans. In defiance of all reason and compassion, the criminalization of poverty has actually been intensifying as the recession generates ever more of it. Kim Phillips-Fein reviews Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loïc Wacquant (and more). A review of Sasha Abramsky's Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It. All-American Squatters: Take Back the Land is “liberating” foreclosed homes to fight homelessness. A review of Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement by Marshall Ganz. A review of The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America by David S. Meyer. The case for government doing good: Now is the time for Obama to champion the good that government does for Americans.