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서명/저자사항 | Blame welfare, ignore poverty and inequality [electronic resource] / Joel F. Handler, Yeheskel Hasenfeld. |
개인저자 | Handler, Joel F. Hasenfeld, Yeheskel. |
단체저자명 | NetLibrary, Inc. |
발행사항 | New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. |
형태사항 | xiii, 401 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN | 9780511349911 (electronic bk.) 0511349912 (electronic bk.) |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-378) and indexes. |
내용주기 | 1. Introduction -- The argument -- The plan of the book -- 2. The state of poverty : TANF recipients -- The myth and reality of poverty in America -- Measuring poverty -- Experiencing poverty -- The risk of poverty and poverty spells -- Who are the poor? -- The working poor -- Poverty, race, and ethnicity -- Poverty, gender, and single parenthood -- Child poverty -- Why is poverty persistently high? -- Welfare recipients -- Historical trends -- Welfare use -- Characteristics of families -- Race/ethnicity -- Education level -- Welfare and work -- Monthly income -- Employment -- Welfare leavers : stuck in poverty -- Conclusions -- 3. The response to poverty and inequality : the welfare state -- Introduction -- The public welfare state -- Cash assistance -- The earned income tax credit (EITC) -- In-kind programs -- Food and nutrition -- Hunger and food insecurity -- Child care -- Child support -- Education -- Housing -- Health care -- Trying to reform health insurance -- Health insurance for low-income children (SCHIP) -- Health of children of immigrants -- Summary : child well-being -- Who uses the welfare state? -- The impact of the welfare state on poverty -- The private welfare state : workers -- The "third section" -- Conclusions -- 4. Demonizing the single-mother family : the path to welfare reform -- The colonial period -- The origins of aid to dependent children -- The "suitable home" -- The "welfare queen" and the welfare "crisis" -- The attacks on welfare -- The liberal response to welfare : the war on poverty -- The triumph of the "welfare queen" -- The transformation of welfare departments -- Putting recipients to work -- State waivers to increase work requirements -- "Ending welfare as we know it" -- Conclusions : a return to colonial welfare -- 5. The welfare bureaucracy -- Welfare bureaucracy as an enactment of moral symbols -- The "new" welfare-to-work ideology -- The welfare department as an employment agency -- The "welfare-to-work" approach -- Use of sanctions -- Routinization and discretion -- Provision of social services -- State variations : do they matter? -- Integrated vs. specialized case management -- Privatization of TANF : who benefits? -- Changing the culture of the welfare department -- Conclusions -- 6. Work and the low-wage labor market : mothers and children -- What kinds of jobs are available? : the low-wage labor market for women -- The rise of non-standard work -- Stuck in low-wage jobs -- The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) -- The impact on welfare leavers -- The dilemmas of child care for low-wage workers -- The use of child care -- The costs of child care -- Availability of child care resources -- Caring for children with health problems -- "It's just not working" -- The quality of child care -- The effects of child care -- Impact of working in the low-wage market on child development -- Conclusions -- 7. Welfare reform and moral entrepreneurship : promoting marriage and responsible parenthood and preventing teenage pregnancy -- Marriage and poverty -- Married and poor -- The fragile families study -- Paternity establishment and child-support enforcement -- Promoting healthy marriages -- Family cap -- Domestic violence -- PRWORA and teens -- Teen single mothers, fathers, and their children -- Teen mothers on welfare -- Living arrangements -- School attendance -- Sanctions -- Teen children of welfare recipients -- Does PRWORA affect rates of teen pregnancy, school dropout, and living arrangements? -- Can abstinence-only-until-marriage programs reduce teen pregnancies? -- Conclusions -- 8. Addressing poverty and inequality -- The starting point -- The interconnectedness of poverty issues -- Why there has to be both jobs and income support -- Improving the pain labor market -- Increasing the income of families : a children's allowance -- Improving child care -- Childcare : the very early period -- Children : preschool -- Improving the neighborhood effect -- The hard-to-employ. |
복제주기 | Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. |
일반주제명 | Public welfare --United States. Family policy --United States. Welfare recipients --Government policy --United States. Low-income single mothers --Government policy --United States. Poor families --Government policy --United States. Poverty --United States. Equality --United States. |
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