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The poverty of welfare : helping others in civil society / Michael D. Tanner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tanner, Michael, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
- United States.
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Welfare state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Citing the failure of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, Tanner, director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute, a pubic policy research foundation dedicated to traditional American principles of limited government and individual liberty, argues that the American welfare system should be dis
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Preface; 1. ""The End of Welfare As We Know It""; 2. Welfare before 1996; 3. The Need for Reform - Then and Now; 4. The Results of Reform; 5. Welfare: End It, Don't Mend It; 6. The Dangers of Government-Funded Charity; 7. Getting Out of Poverty; 8. Conclusion: The Poverty of Welfare; Notes; Index; Cato Institute
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-200) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611905552
- 9781281905550
- 1281905550
- 9781933995731
- 1933995734
- 9781597340649
- 1597340642
- OCLC:
- 475937780
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