We the poor people
Subtitle: work, poverty, and welfare
By: Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld.
Contributors: Hasenfeld, Yeheskel.
Series: A Yale fastback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States; Welfare recipients -- Employment -- United States; Poverty -- United States
Description: Current welfare reforms - including recently enacted federal legislation - are largely symbolic politics, argue two experts in this important new book. According to Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, the real problem we face is not the spread of welfare but the spread of poverty among the working poor, a group that includes most welfare recipients. The surest way to solve the problem is to create jobs and supplement low-wage work.

The authors offer proposals that would make it possible for individuals to support themselves and their families through working and that would establish a safety net for the relatively few individuals who are unable to do so.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-268) and index.
"A Twentieth Century Fund book."