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Autore |
Neubeck Kenneth J |
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Titolo |
When Welfare Disappears [[electronic resource]] |
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Hoboken, : Taylor & Francis, 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Poverty |
Public welfare |
Public welfare - Economic aspects - United States |
Welfare recipients |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction: Combating Poverty, Respecting Economic Human Rights; Chapter 2: U.S. Welfare Policy: From Supporting Motherhood to a War against the Poor; Chapter 3: Building Character through Adversity: General Outcomes of Welfare Reform; Chapter 4: Varieties of Little-Noticed Suffering: Deconstructing Welfare-Reliant Families; Chapter 5: Combating Family Poverty: How Other Affluent Nations Are More Successful and Why This Is So; Chapter 6: Establishing Respect for Economic Human Rights in the United States; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Offers a history of welfare and an understanding of the diverse characteristics of lone-mother-headed families affected by welfare reform. The author offers a comparison of many industrialized nation's welfare policies, and presents an argument for curtailing the end of welfare as we know it: the case for respecting economic human rights. |
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