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Author | : Mark R. Rank |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780231084246 |
Download Living on the Edge Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Based on ten years of research, the book follows individuals and families as they apply for and live on public aid and eventually leave the system. Rank's chronicle of their day-to-day experiences reveals the many sacrifices and crises that tax ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Beginning with a history of welfare from Roosevelt to Clinton, he focuses on AFDC and the Food Stamp program. He then describes the backgrounds of the recipients, their hopes for the future and attitudes toward welfare, their daily routines and problems, their work behavior, and the effect of welfare on family dynamics. Living on the Edge reveals the experiences of female-headed families, married couples, single men and women, and the elderly.
Author | : Mark R. Rank |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780231084253 |
Download Living on the Edge Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Exploring the lives of a wide range of individuals and families, 'Living on the Edge' depicts a side of the welfare experience rarely seen and dispels the myth that only the urban underclass--the center of most policy debate--struggles on welfare. Rank's juxtaposition of numbers and faces alerts us to the fact that welfare recipients share much in common with the rest of the population. His frank analysis allows us to see beyond the common biases to the fundamental constraints and forces in our society that push so many people to life on the edge.
Author | : Irwin Garfinkel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2010-01-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 019957930X |
Download Wealth and Welfare States Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations have large welfare states, and identifying US welfare state leadership. From 1968 through 2006, the United States swung right politically and lost its lead in education and opportunity, failed to adopt universal health insurance and experienced the most rapid explosion of health care costs and economic inequality in the rich world. The American welfare state faces large challenges. Restoring its historical lead in education is the most important but requires investing large sums in education, beginning with universal pre-school and in complementary programs that aid children's development.
Author | : William J. Novak |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807863653 |
Download The People’s Welfare Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety, political economy, public property, morality, and public health. Challenging the myth of American individualism, Novak recovers a distinctive nineteenth-century commitment to shared obligations and public duties in a well-regulated society. Novak explores the by-laws, ordinances, statutes, and common law restrictions that regulated almost every aspect of America's society and economy, including fire regulations, inspection and licensing rules, fair marketplace laws, the moral policing of prostitution and drunkenness, and health and sanitary codes. Based on a reading of more than one thousand court cases in addition to the leading legal and political texts of the nineteenth century, The People's Welfare demonstrates the deep roots of regulation in America and offers a startling reinterpretation of the history of American governance.
Author | : Martin Gilens |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009-05-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226293661 |
Download Why Americans Hate Welfare Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Tackling one of the most volatile issues in contemporary politics, Martin Gilens's work punctures myths and misconceptions about welfare policy, public opinion, and the role of the media in both. Why Americans Hate Welfare shows that the public's views on welfare are a complex mixture of cynicism and compassion; misinformed and racially charged, they nevertheless reflect both a distrust of welfare recipients and a desire to do more to help the "deserving" poor. "With one out of five children currently living in poverty and more than 100,000 families with children now homeless, Gilens's book is must reading if you want to understand how the mainstream media have helped justify, and even produce, this state of affairs." —Susan Douglas, The Progressive "Gilens's well-written and logically developed argument deserves to be taken seriously." —Choice "A provocative analysis of American attitudes towards 'welfare.'. . . [Gilens] shows how racial stereotypes, not white self-interest or anti-statism, lie at the root of opposition to welfare programs." -Library Journal
Author | : Fay Lomax Cook |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Public opinion |
ISBN | : 0231076193 |
Download Support for the American Welfare State Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This edition reveals the results of a survey of attitudes of both the public and members of the U.S. House of Representatives about Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Medicare, Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Food Stamps, and Unemployment Compensation.
Author | : Jacob S. Hacker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2002-09-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521013284 |
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Author | : Phil Harvey |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2016-02-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download The Human Cost of Welfare Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Why is the welfare system failing to work for so many people? 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. Unlike other books on welfare, this one draws on the stories of more than 100 welfare recipients who are trapped in a system that keeps them underemployed and unemployed. The authors present case studies that show that being a part of a welfare program can actively result in the recipient having to limit their job efforts for fear of losing government assistance. The book examines all major U.S. welfare systems, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, SNAP, Medicaid, and others. The authors begin by exploring the nation's basic poverty issues and examining the relationship between work and happiness. Next, they zero in on specific welfare programs, reporting both on their dollar costs and on the ways that they fail enrollees. The book then concludes with strategies for addressing the shortcomings of the current U.S. welfare system. This book is appropriate for readers interested in public policy, government programs, welfare, and cultural shifts in America. It adds a new perspective to the existing body of welfare scholarship by systematically assessing the impact of welfare on the receivers themselves.
Author | : John M. Herrick |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0761925848 |
Download Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This encyclopedia provides readers with basic information about the history of social welfare in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The intent of the encyclopedia is to provide readers with information about how these three nations have dealt with social welfare issues, some similar across borders, others unique, as well as to describe important events, developments, and the lives and work of some key contributors to social welfare developments.
Author | : Daniel Béland |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019983850X |
Download The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This handbook provides a survey of the American welfare state. It offers an historical overview of U.S. social policy from the colonial era to the present, a discussion of available theoretical perspectives on it, an analysis of social programmes, and on overview of the U.S. welfare state's consequences for poverty, inequality, and citizenship.