Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty : Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity /

Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted, policy makers, agency administrators, community activists, and academics from a broad range of disciplines have debated and researched the implications of welfare reform in the United States. Most of the a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Pickering, Kathleen (Autor), Harvey, Mark H. (Autor), Summers, Gene F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Rural Studies
Temas:
Public welfare > United States > Case studies.
Rural poor > United States > Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Rural Places, State Welfare Policies, and Theoretical Bases
  • Part I What the Numbers Tell Us
  • 2 Welfare Caseloads: Changes in Public Assistance Program Use
  • 3 Labor Markets: From Tanf to Low-Wage Part-Time Jobs
  • 4 Poverty: Family and Community Well-Being
  • Part II What the People Told Us
  • 5 Welfare Reform on the Reservation, South Dakota
  • 6 Welfare Reform in Appalachia, Kentucky
  • 7 Welfare Reform in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas
  • 8 Welfare Reform in the Mississippi Delta, Mississippi
  • 9 Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty
  • Appendix A: Tanf Participant Respondent Characteristics
  • Appendix B: Cluster Counties and Reservations
  • References
  • Index

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