When welfare disappears
Subtitle: the case for economic human rights
By: by Kenneth J. Neubeck.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780415947794; 9780415947800
Subjects: Public welfare -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Welfare recipients -- United States -- Economic conditions.; Poverty -- Government policy -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : combating poverty/respecting economic human rights; title: U.S. welfare policy : from supporting motherhood to a war against the poor; title: Building character through adversity : general outcomes of welfare reform; title: Varieties of little-noticed suffering : deconstructing welfare-reliant families; title: Combating family poverty : how other affluent nations are more successful, and why this is so; title: Establishing respect for economic human rights within the United States.