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Ending welfare as we know it /

"Bill Clinton's first presidential term was a period of extraordinary change in policy toward low-income families. In 1993 Congress enacted a major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families. In 1996 Congress passed and the president signed the Personal Respo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weaver, R. Kent, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Welfare reform as a political and policy problem
  • Welfare as we knew it
  • Explaining welfare politics: context, choices, traps
  • The past as prologue
  • Welfare reform agendas in the 1990s
  • The role of policy research
  • Public opinion on welfare reform
  • Interest groups and welfare reform
  • Not ending welfare as we know it: the Clinton administration's welfare reform initiative
  • A new Congress, a new dynamic
  • Stop and go in the Senate
  • Endgames and aftershocks
  • Gaining ground? The new world of welfare
  • Welfare reform and the dynamics of American politics.