Living on the edge in suburbia : from welfare to workfare / Terese Lawinski.
Westchester County, New York, is thought of as suburban and affluent, but welfare reform hit hard here, too. The radical 1996 legislation created a temporary assistance program for poor families with harsher provisions than the program it replaced. It mandates "workfare," meaning that reci...
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| Language: | English |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2010.
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HV99.W45 L39 2010 |
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