Living on the Edge : The Realities of Welfare in America /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[1994]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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