Blame welfare, ignore poverty and inequality /
Handler, Joel F.
Hasenfeld, Yeheskel.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-378) and indexes.
Introduction -- The state of poverty : TANF recipients -- The response to poverty and inequality : the welfare state -- Demonizing the single-mother family : the path to welfare reform -- The welfare bureaucracy -- Work and the low-wage labor market : mothers and children -- Welfare reform and moral entrepreneurship : promoting marriage and responsible parenthood and preventing teenage pregnancy -- Addressing poverty and inequality.
Public welfare
Family policy
Welfare recipients
Low-income single mothers
Poor families
Poverty
Equality