Flat Broke with Children Women in the Age of Welfare Reform

Name: Flat Broke with Children Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
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ISBN: 9780195176018

ISBN-10: 0195176014

ISBN-13: 9780195176018

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sharon Hays

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Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2.1 million in 2001. But what does this "success" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke, With Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of welfare reform from inside the welfare office and inside the lives of welfare mothers, describing the challenges that welfare recipients face in managing their work, their families, and the rules and regulations of welfare reform. Welfare reform, experienced on the ground, is not a rosy picture. The majority of adult welfare clients are mothers--over 90 percent--and the…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.35" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Money and Morality



Enforcing the Work Ethic



Promoting Family Values



Fear, Hope, and Resignation in the Welfare Office



Pyramids of Inequality



Invisibility and Inclusion



Cultures of Poverty



The "Success" of Welfare Reform


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