LEADER 02622nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910777402303321 005 20230607221923.0 010 $a1-62895-223-7 010 $a0-87013-887-1 010 $a1-4294-8038-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000474148 035 $a(EBL)1768426 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267979 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11236588 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267979 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10212493 035 $a(PQKB)10681170 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338216 035 $a(OCoLC)606677555 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338216 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10523749 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000474148 100 $a20010828d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVisions of poverty$b[electronic resource] $ewelfare policy and political imagination /$fRobert Asen 210 $aEast Lansing, MI $cMichigan State University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 225 1 $aRhetoric and public affairs series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87013-600-3 311 $a0-87013-606-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aImagining 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. 330 $aImages of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). With the president's signature this originally non-controversial program became the only title of the 1935 Social Security Act to be repealed. The legislation culminated a retrenchment era in welfare policy beginning in the early 1980's. To understand completely the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th Century, the various.... 410 0$aRhetoric and public affairs series. 606 $aPublic welfare$zUnited States 606 $aPoverty$zUnited States 615 0$aPublic welfare 615 0$aPoverty 676 $a361.650973 700 $aAsen$b Robert$f1968-$0961289 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777402303321 996 $aVisions of poverty$93763776 997 $aUNINA