Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare "Reform" and the Roads Not Taken, 1935 to the Present

by Sheila D. Collins, Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg

Overview

The authors argue that the personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, popularly known as welfare "reform", offers neither work opportunity nor real reform. In repealing the entitlement to welfare and failing to create an entitlement to work - at the same time as it imposes strict, time-limited work requirements - Washington has, in effect, written a new Poor Law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780945257844
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2001
Pages:	518
Product dimensions:	6.61(w) x 9.14(h) x 1.54(d)
Age Range:	18 Years