The human cost of welfare : how the system hurts the people it's supposed to help / Phil Harvey and Lisa Conyers ; foreword by Jonathan Rauch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harvey, Philip D., 1938- author.

Conyers, Lisa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

United States.

Welfare recipients--United States.

Welfare recipients.

Poor--United States.

Poor.

United States--Social policy.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

xxii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2016]

Contents:

Part I The Welfare Conflict

Chapter 1 What Does Work Have to Do with Happiness? 3

Chapter 2 The War Between Welfare and Work 9

Part II The Counterproductive Qualifications for Welfare

Chapter 3 What Counts as Poverty 19

Chapter 4 Marriage, Childbearing, and Teen Pregnancy 25

Part III Welfare Programs in Theory and in Fact

Chapter 5 TANF: The Changing Face of Cash Assistance 41

Chapter 6 A Housing System Leaves the Needy Out in the Cold 49

Chapter 7 Who Gets Food Stamps? 53

Chapter 8 WIC: Missteps with Women and Children 65

Chapter 9 How We Disable the Disabled 71

Chapter 10 Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act 93

Chapter 11 The Earned Income Tax Credit: Welfare Done (Almost) Right 109

Part IV Building Blocks for a Better Welfare System

Chapter 12 Patterns of Dependence and Independence: American Indians on Reservations, Barterers, and Immigrants 127

Chapter 13 What Should Be Done: From Incentives to Special Savings Accounts, Solutions Abound to Get Americans Back to Work 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197) and index.

ISBN:

9781440845345

1440845344

OCLC:

927166078