Stretched Thin

Name: Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9780801475108
Price: 3566.00 INR
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Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform

by Sandra L. Morgen, Joan Acker, Jill Weigt

Cornell University Press · 2010

A study of the US welfare reform of 1996 and the disputed assumptions behind it. It suits readers of social policy and welfare, and anyone following the debate over cash assistance.

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About this book

The 1996 federal welfare reform in the United States was welcomed by its architects as a new consensus: cash aid would be short-term and tied to finding work. This book examines that consensus, the assumptions behind it, and the varied and disputed assessments of what followed.

Its authors, Sandra L. Morgen, Joan Acker and Jill Weigt, place the reform inside a wider question about what it means when a safety net is designed around employment. The book is aimed at readers of social policy and welfare.

Published by Cornell University Press, with ISBN-13 9780801475108.