When Welfare Disappears.
Offers a history of welfare and an understanding of the diverse characteristics of lone-mother-headed families affected by welfare reform. The author offers a comparison of many industrialized nation's welfare policies, and presents an argument for curtailing the end of welfare as we know it: t...
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Taylor & Francis,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction: Combating Poverty, Respecting Economic Human Rights; Chapter 2: U.S. Welfare Policy: From Supporting Motherhood to a War against the Poor; Chapter 3: Building Character through Adversity: General Outcomes of Welfare Reform; Chapter 4: Varieties of Little-Noticed Suffering: Deconstructing Welfare-Reliant Families; Chapter 5: Combating Family Poverty: How Other Affluent Nations Are More Successful and Why This Is So; Chapter 6: Establishing Respect for Economic Human Rights in the United States; Notes; Index.