"So you think I drive a Cadillac?"
Subtitle: welfare recipients perspectives on the system and its reform / Karen Seccombe.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Poor women -- United States; Welfare recipients -- United States; Public welfare -- United States
Description: "This look at the welfare system provides readers with stories from welfare recipients themselves: how they got onto welfare, what the reality of welfare (and welfare reform) is for them, issues with raising their families, and what their plans, hopes, and dreams are for the future. Welfare recipients who were interviewed by the author share their perspectives on work requirements, family caps, time limits, and other features of the new welfare reform (TANF) program. These qualitative interviews are theoretically grounded, and supplemented with up-to-date statewide and national data on welfare reform and its consequences."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.