The promise of welfare reform
Subtitle: political rhetoric and the reality of poverty in the twenty-first century
By: Keith M. Kilty, Elizabeth A. Segal, editors.
Contributors: Kilty, Keith M. 1946-; Segal, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780789029218; 9780789029225
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States.; Poor -- Government policy -- United States.; Welfare recipients -- United States.; United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
Description: Presents articles from 23 community practitioners and researchers who challenge the "reform" that has turned public aid from a right to a privilege.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Looking up the slippery slope : lessons from a lifetime of trying to figure out and fight poverty / Ann Withorn; title: Neither accidental, nor simply mean-spirited : the context for welfare reform / Mimi Abramovitz; title: Welfare reform : forward to the past / Alfred L. Joseph, Jr.; title: Welfare reform in historical perspective / Joel Blau; title: Lessons from Vermont / Margaret K. Nelson; title: Welfare reform and the transformation of the U.S. welfare state / Michael Reisch; title: Living economic restructuring at the bottom : welfare restructuring and low-wage work / Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, Jill Weigt, Lisa Gonzales; title: Welfare reform and the American dream / Laura R. Peck, Sarah Allen Gershon; title: Welfare reform : what's poverty got to do with it? / Keith M. Kilty; title: Microenterprise development, welfare reform, and the contradictions of new privatization / Nancy C. Jurik; title: Welfare reform and housing retrenchment : what happens when two policies collide? / Jessica W. Pardee; title: Changing the face of homelessness : welfare reform's impact on homeless families / Bart W. Miles, Patrick J. Fowler; title: Ending single motherhood / Gwendolyn Mink; title: Wedlock, worship, and welfare : the influence of right-wing think tanks and the Christian right on welfare reform / Ellen Reese; title: Safety and self-sufficiency : rhetoric and reality in the lives of welfare recipients / Lisa D. Brush; title: Welfare reform and the safety needs of battered women / Christine C. George; title: Ever present, sometimes acknowledged, but never addressed : racial disparities in U.S. welfare policy / Susan T. Gooden, Nakeina E. Douglas; title: That old black magic? : welfare reform and the new politics of racial implication / Sanford F. Schram; title: The politics of citizenship and entitlement : immigrants, welfare, and the persistence of poverty / Lynn Fujiwara; title: Weaving a safety net for immigrants post-PRWORA / Susan F. Grossman, Maria Vidal de Haymes, Jami Evans, Lawrence Benito, Choua Vue, Susan Wilkie; title: Welfare as we should know it : social empathy and welfare reform / Elizabeth A. Segal; title: Establishing respect for economic human rights / Kenneth J. Neubeck; title: Welfare reform and the power of protest : quantitative tests of Piven and Cloward's "turmoil-relief" hypothesis / Eric Swank.