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: July 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9780789000477
Subjects: Economic systems; Sociology, Social Studies; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Economic Conditions; Aid to families with dependent children programs; Welfare recipients; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Poor children; Business/Economics; Income maintenance programs; Aid to families with dependent; United States
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).