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The promise of welfare reform : political rhetoric and the reality of poverty in the twenty-first century / Keith M. Kilty, Elizabeth A. Segal, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- United States.
- Poor--Government policy--United States.
- Poor.
- Poor--Government policy.
- Welfare recipients--United States.
- Welfare recipients.
- United States--Social policy--1993-.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Haworth Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Since 1996, politicians and public officials in the United States have celebrated the "success" of welfare reform legislation despite little, if any, evidence to support their claims. This book presents contributions from twenty-three community practitioners and researchers who challenge the "reform" that has turned public aid from a right to a privilege. The authors transcend conventional academic writing, offering careful and thoughtful analysis that examines the history of welfare reform, its connection to poverty, family issues, and the impact of racism on poverty and on the treatment of the poor.
- 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 ... [et al.]
- 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 ... [et al.]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0789029219
- 0789029227
- OCLC:
- 61261274
- Publisher Number:
- 9780789029218
- 9780789029225
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