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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
©2000.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.