Lost Ground
Subtitle: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond
Contributors: Randy Albelda (Editor); Ann Withorn (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: South End Press
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780896086586
Subjects: Poverty; Welfare & benefit systems; Social Science; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Politics / Current Events; Current Affairs; Political Science; Welfare recipients; Politics/International Relations; USA; Public welfare; Political Science / General; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Government policy; Poor; United States
First sentence: THE incumbency of Ronald Reagan, now almost twenty years ago, crystallized and intensified the long-standing conservative tradition of demonizing poor people, their families, and their communities-along with the government systems designed to assist them.