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Autore |
Asen Robert <1968-> |
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Titolo |
Visions of poverty [[electronic resource] ] : welfare policy and political imagination / / Robert Asen |
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East Lansing, MI, : Michigan State University Press, c2002 |
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1-62895-223-7 |
0-87013-887-1 |
1-4294-8038-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (335 p.) |
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Collana |
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Rhetoric and public affairs series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public welfare - United States |
Poverty - United States |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Imagining others in public policy debate -- Cross-purposes and divided populations: the historical contradictions of poverty discourse -- Reducing welfare -- Reorienting welfare -- Repealing welfare -- Imagining an inclusive political community. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). With the president's signature this originally non-controversial program became the only title of the 1935 Social Security Act to be repealed. The legislation culminated a retrenchment era in welfare policy beginning in the early 1980's. To understand completely the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th Century, the various.... |
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