When Welfare Disappears [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Neubeck Kenneth J
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| Titolo: |
When Welfare Disappears [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, : Taylor & Francis, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 330 |
| Soggetto topico: | Poverty |
| Public welfare | |
| Public welfare - Economic aspects - United States | |
| Welfare recipients | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | When Welfare Disappears |
| ISBN: | 0-203-95528-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457274803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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