Visions of poverty : welfare policy and political imagination /

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Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). With the president's signature this o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Asen, Robert, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2002.
Series:Rhetoric and public affairs series.
Subjects:
Public welfare > United States.
Poverty > United States.
Aide sociale > États-Unis.
Pauvreté > États-Unis.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
Poverty
Public welfare
Sozialpolitik
Armut
United States
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Imagining others in public policy debate
  • Cross-purposes and divided populations: the historical contradictions of poverty discourse
  • Reducing welfare
  • Reorienting welfare
  • Repealing welfare
  • Imagining an inclusive political community.

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