02656nam 2200613Ia 450 991045169650332120200520144314.01-62895-223-70-87013-887-11-4294-8038-6(CKB)1000000000474148(EBL)1768426(SSID)ssj0000267979(PQKBManifestationID)11236588(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267979(PQKBWorkID)10212493(PQKB)10681170(MiAaPQ)EBC3338216(OCoLC)606677555(MdBmJHUP)muse1774(Au-PeEL)EBL3338216(CaPaEBR)ebr10523749(EXLCZ)99100000000047414820010828d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrVisions of poverty[electronic resource] welfare policy and political imagination /Robert AsenEast Lansing, MI Michigan State University Pressc20021 online resource (335 p.)Rhetoric and public affairs seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-87013-600-3 0-87013-606-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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signature this originally non-controversial program became the only title of the 1935 Social Security Act to be repealed.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....Rhetoric and public affairs series.Public welfareUnited StatesPovertyUnited StatesElectronic books.Public welfarePoverty361.650973Asen Robert1968-961289MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451696503321Visions of poverty2460614UNINA