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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784490503321

Autore

Haskins Ron

Titolo

Work over welfare [[electronic resource] ] : the inside story of the 1996 welfare reform law / / Ron Haskins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8157-3509-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 p.)

Disciplina

362.5/840973

Soggetti

Public welfare - United States

Welfare recipients - Employment - United States

United States Social policy 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; 1.  Building the American Welfare State; 2.  Laying the Groundwork; 3.  House Republicans United behind Radical Reforms; 4.  The Contract with America; 5.  The House Initiates the Revolution; 6.  The Battle in the House, PART I:  Hearings; 7.  The Battle in the House, Part II:  Markups; 8.  The Battle in the House, Part III:  The Floor; 9.  The Senate Joins the Revolution; 10.  Budget Issues Trump Welfare Reform; 11.  Clinton Vetoes Welfare Reform, Again; 12.  The Governors Revive the Revolution; 13.  The Revolution Threatened

14.  Triumph:  Clinton Signs15.  Ten Years Later:  The Triumph of Work; Appendix:  The Welfare Reform Law That Reshaped American Social Policy; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Work over Welfare tells the inside story of the legislation that ended ''welfare as we know it.'' As a key staffer on the House Ways and Means Committee, author Ron Haskins was one of the architects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996.