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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-
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--United States.
- Poor.
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Welfare recipients--United States.
- Welfare recipients.
- United States--Social policy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 206 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the problems with the current welfare system and proposes reforms to create a smarter, smaller system that helps people improve their lives through rewarding work.
- Contents:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Figures, Tables, and Appendices; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Welfare Reforms Need Reforming; PART I The Welfare Conflict; Chapter 1 What Does Work Have to Do with Happiness?; Chapter 2 The War Between Welfare and Work; PART II The Counter productive Qualifications for Welfare; Chapter 3 What Counts as Poverty; Chapter 4 Marriage, Childbearing, and Teen Pregnancy; PART III Welfare Programs in Theory and in Fact; Chapter 5 TANF: The Changing Face of Cash Assistance
- Chapter 6 A Housing System Leaves the Needy Out in the ColdChapter 7 Who Gets Food Stamps?; Chapter 8 WIC: Missteps with Women and Children; Chapter 9 How We Disable the Disabled; Chapter 10 Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act; Chapter 11 The Earned Income Tax Credit: Welfare Done (Almost) Right; PART IV Building Blocks for a Better Welfare System; Chapter 12 Patterns of Dependence and Independence: American Indians on Reservations, Barterers, and Immigrants; Chapter 13 What Should Be Done: From Incentives to Special Savings Accounts, Solutions Abound to Get Americans Back to Work; Notes
- BibliographyIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400667190
- 9798216099741
- 9781440845352
- 1440845352
- OCLC:
- 956332478
- Publisher Number:
- 10.5040/9798400667190
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