We the poor people : work, poverty and welfare / Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld
- Bib ID:
- 1641014
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Handler, Joel F., 1932-
- Description:
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- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c1997
- xii,281pages ; 25 cm.
- xii, 281 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0300072481 (cased)
- 0300072503 (paperback)
- Series:
- Twentieth century fund book.
- Summary:
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Current welfare reforms - including recently enacted federal legislation - are largely symbolic politics, argue two experts in this important new book. According to Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, the real problem we face is not the spread of welfare but the spread of poverty among the working poor, a group that includes most welfare recipients. The surest way to solve the problem is to create jobs and supplement low-wage work. The authors offer proposals that would make it possible for individuals to support themselves and their families through working and that would establish a safety net for the relatively few individuals who are unable to do so.
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Richard C. Leone
- Pt. 1. The Fixation on Work versus Welfare. 1. The Choices We Make. 2. Welfare Programs: History and Structure. 3. Work, Recipients, and Poverty. 4. Work Programs: Myth and Reality
- Pt. 2. New Directions. 5. Jobs, Income, and Employment Support. 6. Employment-Related Benefits. 7. Employment Services. 8. Teenage Parents and Welfare. 9. Conclusions.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-268) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hasenfeld, Yeheskel
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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