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Backlash Against Welfare Mothers
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Ellen Reese
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-07-29 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Ellen Reese considers the politics of welfare in the U.S. from the 1940s to the present, offering a historical perspective on the current debates over 'welfare
Backlash against Welfare Mothers
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Ellen Reese
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-07-29 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Backlash against Welfare Mothers is a forceful examination of how and why a state-level revolt against welfare, begun in the late 1940s, was transformed into a
Whose Welfare?
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Gwendolyn Mink
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Discusses the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996.
The Color of Welfare
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Jill Quadagno
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-04-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking s
Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Lisa D. Brush
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Drawing on longitudinal interviews, government records, and personal narratives, feminist sociologist Lisa Brush examines the intersection of work, welfare, and