Faces of poverty [[electronic resource] ] : portraits of women and children on welfare / / Jill Duerr Berrick

• Autore: Berrick Jill Duerr
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.5/0973
• Soggetto topico: Poor women - United States; Poor children - United States; Welfare recipients - United States; Public welfare - United States
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Living Poverty -- 1. What Is Welfare? -- 2. Ana: Caught in Circumstances Beyond Her Control -- 3. Sandy: Working but Poor -- 4. Rebecca: Motivation and a Fighting Spirit -- 5. Darlene: Complex People, Complex Problems -- 6. Cora: A Portrait of Dependency -- 7. Finding a Better Way.
• Sommario/riassunto: Most Americans are insulated from the poor; it's hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of crime and victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child. Instead, we are often exposed to the rhetoric and hyperbole about the excesses of the American welfare system. These messages color our perception of the welfare problem in the United States and they close the American mind to a full understanding of the complexity of family poverty. But who are these poor families? What do we know about how they arrived in such desperate straits? Is poverty their fate
• Titolo autorizzato: Faces of poverty
• ISBN: 1-280-52944-X; 0-19-509754-8; 1-4294-1576-2; 0-19-802581-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792224803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II