The poverty of welfare reform / Joel F. Handler.
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 show...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1995]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.