They say cut back, we say fight back! : : welfare activism in an era of retrenchment / / Ellen Reese.
"In 1996, President Bill Clinton hailed the 'end of welfare as we know it' when he signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. The law effectively transformed the nation's welfare system from an entitlement to a work-based one, instituting new time limits on welf...
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| Superior document: | American Sociological Association's Rose series in sociology |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Russell Sage Foundation,, [2011] 2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rose series in sociology.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (303 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Welfare reform and its challengers
- Policy implementation as policy making: the case of U.S. welfare reform
- Challenging welfare racism: cross-racial coalitions to restore legal immigrants' benefits
- Battling the welfare profiteers: campaigns against the welfare privatization
- Confronting the workfare state: community and labor campaigns for workfare workers' rights
- But who will watch the children? State and local campaigns to improve child care policies
- Challenges and prospects for the welfare rights movement.