Living on the Edge : : The Realities of Welfare in America /

Living on the Edge : : The Realities of Welfare in America / / Mark Robert Rank.

This acclaimed book powerfully depicts a side of the welfare experience rarely seen, dispelling the myth that only an urban underclass-the center of most policy debate-struggles on welfare. Rank's juxtaposition of numbers and faces demonstrates that welfare recipients share much in common with...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
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Rank, Mark Robert,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1994]
©1994
Year of Publication:1994
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. THE WELFARE DEBATE
  • 3. GETTING ON
  • 4. DAY-TO-DAY LIVING
  • 5. FAMILY DYNAMICS
  • 6. BELIEFS AND DOPES
  • 7. WORKING
  • 8. ATTITUDES ABOUT WELFARE
  • 9. HOW LONG AND HOW OFTEN?
  • 10. GET TING OFF
  • 11. MYTHS AND REALITIES
  • 12. CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
  • APPENDIX A. METHODOLOGY
  • APPENDIX B. TABLES USED TO GENERATE FIGURES AND ODD RATIOS IN TEXT AND SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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