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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pickering, Kathleen Ann, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2006.
Colección:Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rural places, state welfare policies, and theoretical bases
  • Welfare caseloads : changes in public assistance program use
  • Labor markets : from TANF to low-wage part-time jobs
  • Poverty : family and community well-being
  • Welfare reform on the reservation, South Dakota
  • Welfare reform in Appalachia, Kentucky
  • Welfare reform in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas
  • Welfare reform in the Mississippi Delta, Mississippi
  • Welfare reform in persistent rural poverty.