When welfare disappears : the case for economic human rights /
Offers a history of welfare and an understanding of the diverse characteristics of lone-mother-headed families affected by welfare reform. The author offers a comparison of many industrialized nation's welfare policies, and presents an argument for curtailing the end of welfare as we know it: t...
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New York :
Routledge,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : combating poverty, respecting economic human rights
- U.S. welfare policy : from supporting motherhood to a war against the poor
- Building character through adversity : general outcomes of welfare reform
- Varieties of little-noticed suffering : deconstructing welfare-reliant families
- Combating family poverty : how other affluent nations are more successful, and why this is so
- Establishing respect for economic human rights in the United States.