Income Security and Public Assistance for Women and Children (Monograph Published Simultaneously As the Journal of Poverty , Vol 1, No 2) (Monograph Published ... As the Journal of Poverty , Vol 1, No 2)
Contributors: Keith M. Kilty (Editor); Virginia E. Richardson (Editor); Elizabeth A. Segal (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: May 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9780789000408
Subjects: Economic systems; Welfare & benefit systems; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Economic Conditions; Public Welfare Work; United States; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Poor children; Business/Economics; Income Maintenance Programs; Aid to families with dependent; Welfare recipients; Aid to families with dependent children programs
First sentence: The federal government is confronted with a great challenge: to cut expenditures for welfare programs and to invest more public resources in the nation's children if the country is to have a future workforce with the skills necessary to compete in the global economy and to support the impending retirees of the baby-boom generation, each of whom will have to be supported by only two workers, instead of the current three (Board of Trustees, 1995).