Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 177 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300064802
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0300064810
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0300146124
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9780300064803
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9780300064810
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9780300146127
Inhalt:
Handler suggests that national reform efforts should focus less on welfare and blaming the victim and more on increasing labor markets and reducing poverty through legislation that promotes, for example, the Earned Income Tax Credit and universal health care benefits. Welfare reform, by itself, does nothing to improve the job market, and unless there are more jobs paying more income, we will have done nothing to lessen poverty or reduce welfare
Inhalt:
In this book Joel Handler, a national expert on welfare, points out the fallacies in the current proposals for welfare reform, arguing that they merely recycle old remedies that have not worked. He analyzes the prejudice that has historically existed against "the undeserving poor" and shows that the stereotype of the inner-city woman of color who has children in order to stay on welfare is untrue. Most welfare mothers are in the labor market, says Handler; however, the work that is available to them is most often low-wage, part-time employment with no benefits. Efforts to move large numbers of welfare recipients to full-time employment are not likely to be successful, especially since most of the welfare programs for single mothers are at the state and local levels, and these governments are reluctant to spend the extra money needed to institute work or other reform programs
Inhalt:
Welfare and poverty -- The past is prologue -- The problem of poverty, the problem of work -- Setting the poor to work -- The return to the states: changing social behavior -- The current reform proposals -- Another exercise in symbolic politics
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-167) and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Handler, Joel F Poverty of welfare reform
Sprache:
Englisch
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