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Author |
: James L. Payne |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 1998-05-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015047053296 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Overcoming Welfare by : James L. Payne
Discusses why welfare reform does not work and offers strategies for restructuring the system so that it benefits Americans and encourages them to try and help themselves.
Author |
: Phil Harvey |
Publisher |
: Praeger |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781440845345 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1440845344 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Human Cost of Welfare by : Phil Harvey
Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.
Author |
: James L. Payne |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 1986-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0465063349 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780465063345 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Overcoming Welfare by : James L. Payne
Author |
: Mimi Abramovitz |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2000-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781583670088 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1583670084 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Under Attack, Fighting Back by : Mimi Abramovitz
Abramovitz argues that welfare reform has penalized single motherhood; exposed poor women to the risks of hunger, hopelessness, and male violence: swept them into low paid jobs, and left many former recipients unable to make ends meet.".
Author |
: Ellen Reese |
Publisher |
: Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2011-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610447485 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610447484 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis They Say Cutback, We Say Fight Back! by : Ellen Reese
In 1996, President Bill Clinton hailed the "end of welfare as we know it" when he signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. The law effectively transformed the nation's welfare system from an entitlement to a work-based one, instituting new time limits on welfare payments and restrictions on public assistance for legal immigrants. In They Say Cutback, We Say Fight Back, Ellen Reese offers a timely review of welfare reform and its controversial design, now sorely tested in the aftermath of the Great Recession. The book also chronicles the largely untold story of a new grassroots coalition that opposed the law and continues to challenge and reshape its legacy. While most accounts of welfare policy highlight themes of race, class and gender, They Say Cutback examines how welfare recipients and their allies contested welfare reform from the bottom-up. Using in-depth case studies of campaigns in Wisconsin and California, Reese argues that a crucial phase in policymaking unfolded after the bill's passage. As counties and states set out to redesign their welfare programs, activists scored significant victories by lobbying officials at different levels of American government through media outreach, protests and organizing. Such efforts tended to enjoy more success when based on broad coalitions that cut across race and class, drawing together a shifting alliance of immigrants, public sector unions, feminists, and the poor. The book tracks the tensions and strategies of this unwieldy group brought together inadvertently by their opposition to four major aspects of welfare reform: immigrants' benefits, welfare-to-work policies, privatization of welfare agencies, and child care services. Success in scoring reversals was uneven and subject to local demographic, political and institutional factors. In California, for example, workfare policies created a large and concentrated pool of new workers that public sector unions could organize in campaigns to change policies. In Wisconsin, by contrast, such workers were scattered and largely placed in private sector jobs, leaving unions at a disadvantage. Large Latino and Asian immigrant populations in California successfully lobbied to restore access to public assistance programs, while mobilization in Wisconsin remained more limited. On the other hand, the unionization of child care providers succeeded in Wisconsin – but failed in California – because of contrasting gubernatorial politics. With vivid descriptions of the new players and alliances in each of these campaigns, Reese paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the modern American welfare state. At a time when more than 40 million Americans live in poverty, They Say Cutback offers a sobering assessment of the nation's safety net. As policymakers confront budget deficits and a new era of austerity, this book provides an authoritative guide for both scholars and activists looking for lessons to direct future efforts to change welfare policy. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology
Author |
: United States. General Accounting Office |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000090572433 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Services: Do They Help Welfare Recipients Achieve Selfsupport Or Reduced Dependency? by : United States. General Accounting Office
Author |
: David Macarov |
Publisher |
: SAGE Publications |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 1995-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452246888 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452246882 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Welfare by : David Macarov
Poverty, unemployment, limited access to health care: the litany of ills plaguing contemporary society seems endless, reflective of the pragmatic and philosophical battles waged to overcome what some perceive as insurmountable obstacles. What role has the state played in mitigating the effects of these harsh realities? Offering a comprehensive survey of past and present programs, Social Welfare considers the substance and results of government intervention. Shaped by the works of such distinguished figures as Martin Luther, Adam Smith, and Charles Darwin, this incisive text charts the progression of social welfare policy from inception to its current status. David Macarov links present policy to the convergence of five interacting motivations: mutual aid, religion, politics, economics, and ideology. In identifying these elements, Macarov assays the significance of each in determining the nature of social welfare and its future. Featuring chapter summaries and exercises, this intriguing introduction to social welfare policy and practice will involve and inform students of social work, political science, and sociology. "David Macarov has written a handy introductory social policy text for undergraduate that transcends the descriptive accounts of the social services that pervade the literature. Unlike many other introductory texts, Macarov does not seek to list the major social services and describe their functioning but focuses instead on the role of ideas and wider social forces in social welfare. The book is easy to read and thoroughly supported with recommendations for additional reading. It is a useful addition to the literature." --Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
Author |
: Greg M. Shaw |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2007-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780313084287 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0313084289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Welfare Debate by : Greg M. Shaw
Welfare politics have now been part of American life for four centuries. Beyond a persistent general idea that Americans have a collective obligation to provide for the poorest among us, there has been little common ground on which to forge political and philosophical consensus. Are poor people poor because of their own shortcomings and moral failings, or because of systemic societal and economic obstacles? That is, does poverty have individual or structural causes? This book demonstrates why neither of these two polemical stances has been able to prevail permanently over the other and explores the public policy—and real-life—consequences of the stalemate. Author Greg M. Shaw pays special attention to the outcome of the 1996 act that was heralded as ending welfare as we know it. Historically, people on all sides of the welfare issue have hated welfare—but for different reasons. Like our forebears, we have constantly disagreed about where to strike the balance between meeting the basic needs of the very poor and creating dependency, or undermining individual initiative. The shift in 1996 from New Deal welfare entitlement to workfare mirrored the national mood and ascendant political ideology, as had welfare policy throughout American history. The special contribution of this book is to show how evolving understandings of four key issues—markets, motherhood, race, and federalism—have shaped public perceptions in this contentious debate. A rich historical narrative is here complemented by a sophisticated analytical understanding of the forces at work behind attempts to solve the welfare dilemma. How should we evaluate the current welfare-to-work model? Is a precipitous decline in state welfare caseloads sufficient evidence of success? Success, this book finds, has many measures, and ending welfare as an entitlement program has not ended arguments about how best to protect children from the ravages of poverty or how to address the plight of the most vulnerable among us.
Author |
: Sharon Telleen |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2013-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135423292 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135423296 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Transition from Welfare to Work by : Sharon Telleen
How well do you understand the sweeping welfare reforms of the mid-1990s? The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes provides a comprehensive examination of the welfare-to-work initiatives that were undertaken just prior to and following the major reform of United States welfare legislation in 1996. It will familiarize you with the intent of those reforms and show you how those interventions have been implemented. It also explores the barriers to employment that must be overcome by welfare-to-work clients, and the impact of these changes on clients, employers, and society. From the editors: “Although the numbers enrolled in welfare programs dropped dramatically in the last few years of the economic expansion of the 1990s, until recently we have known very little about the conditions of families affected by welfare-to-work policies. How did welfare-to-work interventions change the lives of participants and their families? What factors helped or hindered the transition to paid work? Are welfare-to-work policies likely to have actually improved the earnings or income of former AFDC recipients? This book studies all these questions.” The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes presents qualitative, quantitative, and econometric analyses as well as panel studies, longitudinal, and quasi-experimental designs. Beginning with a brief description of the goals and structure of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, this book examines all of the phases of the welfare-to-work process. Use it to increase your understanding of: the implementation of interventions designed to place TANF recipients in jobs the factors that impact the readiness of low-income women to enter the job market the outcomes of current and earlier welfare-to-work interventions the steps we need to take to know how these citizens are faring in the welfare-to-work environment and more!
Author |
: Marianne LeVert |
Publisher |
: Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 156294455X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781562944551 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Welfare System by : Marianne LeVert
This book is an examination of our welfare system: how it has evolved, its complex character at present, and the issue of what the government should do now.