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Autore: | Neubeck Kenneth J |
Titolo: | When Welfare Disappears [[electronic resource]] |
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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