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The promise of welfare reform : political rhetoric and the reality of poverty in the twenty-first century
Title
The promise of welfare reform : political rhetoric and the reality of poverty in the twenty-first century / Keith M. Kilty, Elizabeth A. Segal, editors.
ISBN
0203820258
0429236026
0789029219
0789029227
113674889X
1136748938
1136748946
9780203820254
9780429236020
9780789029218
9780789029225
9781136748899
9781136748936
9781136748943
0789029219
0789029227
9780789029218
9780789029225
Published
New York : Haworth Press, ©2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 329 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Presents articles from 23 community practitioners and researchers who challenge the "reform" that has turned public aid from a right to a privilege.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Promise of welfare reform. New York : Haworth Press, ©2006
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 [and others]
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 [and others]
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.
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