An edition of The promise of welfare reform (2006)

The promise of welfare reform

political rhetoric and the reality of poverty in the twenty-first century

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An edition of The promise of welfare reform (2006)

The promise of welfare reform

political rhetoric and the reality of poverty in the twenty-first century

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Haworth Press
Language
English
Pages
329

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Table of Contents

Looking up the slippery slope : lessons from a lifetime of trying to figure out and fight poverty / Ann Withorn
Neither accidental, nor simply mean-spirited : the context for welfare reform / Mimi Abramovitz
Welfare reform : forward to the past / Alfred L. Joseph, Jr.
Welfare reform in historical perspective / Joel Blau
Lessons from Vermont / Margaret K. Nelson
Welfare reform and the transformation of the U.S. welfare state / Michael Reisch
Living economic restructuring at the bottom : welfare restructuring and low-wage work / Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, Jill Weigt, Lisa Gonzales
Welfare reform and the American dream / Laura R. Peck, Sarah Allen Gershon
Welfare reform : what's poverty got to do with it? / Keith M. Kilty
Microenterprise development, welfare reform, and the contradictions of new privatization / Nancy C. Jurik
Welfare reform and housing retrenchment : what happens when two policies collide? / Jessica W. Pardee
Changing the face of homelessness : welfare reform's impact on homeless families / Bart W. Miles, Patrick J. Fowler
Ending single motherhood / Gwendolyn Mink
Wedlock, worship, and welfare : the influence of right-wing think tanks and the Christian right on welfare reform / Ellen Reese
Safety and self-sufficiency : rhetoric and reality in the lives of welfare recipients / Lisa D. Brush
Welfare reform and the safety needs of battered women / Christine C. George
Ever present, sometimes acknowledged, but never addressed : racial disparities in U.S. welfare policy / Susan T. Gooden, Nakeina E. Douglas
That old black magic? : welfare reform and the new politics of racial implication / Sanford F. Schram
The politics of citizenship and entitlement : immigrants, welfare, and the persistence of poverty / Lynn Fujiwara
Weaving a safety net for immigrants post-PRWORA / Susan F. Grossman, Maria Vidal de Haymes, Jami Evans, Lawrence Benito, Choua Vue, Susan Wilkie
Welfare as we should know it : social empathy and welfare reform / Elizabeth A. Segal
Establishing respect for economic human rights / Kenneth J. Neubeck
Welfare reform and the power of protest : quantitative tests of Piven and Cloward's "turmoil-relief" hypothesis / Eric Swank.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
361.6/8/0973
Library of Congress
HV95 .P7372 2006, HV95.P7372 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
329

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3407297M
Internet Archive
promiseofwelfare0000unse
ISBN 10
0789029219, 0789029227
ISBN 13
9780789029218, 9780789029225
LCCN
2005023076
OCLC/WorldCat
607841780, 61261274
Goodreads
1698096

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