Holes in the safety net : federalism and poverty / edited by Ezra Rosser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosser, Ezra, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

Poverty--Government policy.

Poverty.

United States.

Poverty--Government policy--United States.

Legal assistance to the poor--United States.

Legal assistance to the poor.

Federal government--United States.

Federal government.

State governments--United States.

State governments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

While the United States continues to recover from the 2008 Great Recession, the country still faces unprecedented inequality as increasing numbers of poor families struggle to get by with little assistance from the government. Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty offers a grounded look at how states and the federal government provide assistance to poor people. With chapters covering everything from welfare reform to recent efforts by states to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, the book avoids unnecessary jargon and instead focuses on how programs operate in practice. This timely work should be read by anyone who cares about poverty, rising inequality, and the relationship between state, local, and federal levels of government.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction Ezra Rosser; Part I. Welfare and Federalism: 1. The tools in the battle: federalism, entitlement, and punishment across the US social welfare state Wendy Bach; 2. Laboratories of suffering: toward democratic welfare governance Monica Bell, Andrea Taverna, Dhruv Aggarwal and Isra Syed; 3. The difference in being poor in red states versus blue states Michelle Gilman; Part II. States, Federalism, and Anti-Poverty Efforts: 4. States' rights and state wrongs: SNAP and Medicaid work requirements in rural America Rebecca H. Williams and Lisa Pruitt; 5. State and local tax takeaways Francine Lipman; 6. Early childhood development and the replication of poverty Clare Huntington; 7. States diverting funds from the poor Daniel Hatcher; 8. States' evolving role in SNAP David Super; Part III. Advocacy: 9. Federalism in health care reform Nicole Huberfeld; 10. Poverty lawyering in the states Andrew Hammond; 11. Conclusion. A way forward Peter Edelman.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108631662

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.