For over 50 years George Gerharz worked directly with and for low income individuals and households to develop programs and policies. His anti-poverty efforts focused on agency planning, program development, program evaluation, community development, coalition building, and program administration. His 2018 book, Show Me the Cash, focused on how families and government agencies could work together to help children in poverty succeed. In this book, Gerharz proposes solutions to inequality, lack of mobility, and poverty and examines how the US social order and corporate powers create these problems.