The promise of welfare reform : political rhetoric and the reality of poverty in the twenty-first century

XXI, 329 S.

graph. Darst.

22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 23 Beitr.

Looking up the slippery slope : lessons from a lifetime of trying to figure out and fight poverty / Ann Withorn -- Neither accidental, nor simply mean-spirited : the context for welfare reform / Mimi Abramovitz -- Welfare reform : forward to the past / Alfred L. Joseph, Jr. -- Welfare reform in historical perspective / Joel Blau -- Lessons from Vermont / Margaret K. Nelson -- Welfare reform and the transformation of the U.S. welfare state / Michael Reisch -- Living economic restructuring at the bottom : welfare restructuring and low-wage work / Sandra Morgen ... [et al.] -- Welfare reform and the American dream / Laura R. Peck, Sarah Allen Gershon -- Welfare reform : what's poverty got to do with it? / Keith M. Kilty -- Microenterprise development, welfare reform, and the contradictions of new privatization / Nancy C. Jurik -- Welfare reform and housing retrenchment : what happens when two policies collide? / Jessica W. Pardee -- Changing the face of homelessness : welfare reform's impact on homeless families / Bart W. Miles, Patrick J. Fowler -- Ending single motherhood / Gwendolyn Mink -- Wedlock, worship, and welfare : the influence of right-wing think tanks and the Christian right on welfare reform / Ellen Reese -- Safety and self-sufficiency : rhetoric and reality in the lives of welfare recipients / Lisa D. Brush -- Welfare reform and the safety needs of battered women / Christine C. George -- Ever present, sometimes acknowledged, but never addressed : racial disparities in U.S. welfare policy / Susan T. Gooden, Nakeina E. Douglas -- That old black magic? : welfare reform and the new politics of racial implication / Sanford F. Schram -- The politics of citizenship and entitlement : immigrants, welfare, and the persistence of poverty / Lynn Fujiwara -- Weaving a safety net for immigrants post-PRWORA / Susan F. Grossman ... [et al.] -- Welfare as we should know it : social empathy and welfare reform / Elizabeth A. Segal -- Establishing respect for economic human rights / Kenneth J. Neubeck -- Welfare reform and the power of protest : quantitative tests of Piven and Cloward's "turmoil-relief" hypothesis / Eric Swank

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