Visions of poverty : welfare policy and political imagination / Robert Asen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asen, Robert, 1968-

Series:

Rhetoric and public affairs series.

Rhetoric and public affairs series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). With the president's signature this originally non-controversial program became the only title of the 1935 Social Security Act to be repealed. The legislation culminated a retrenchment era in welfare policy beginning in the early 1980's. To understand completely the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th Century, the various....

Contents:

Imagining others in public policy debate

Cross-purposes and divided populations: the historical contradictions of poverty discourse

Reducing welfare

Reorienting welfare

Repealing welfare

Imagining an inclusive political community.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62895-223-7

0-87013-887-1

1-4294-8038-6

OCLC:

606677555