Blame welfare, ignore poverty and inequality

Publication Data

• Title Blame welfare, ignore poverty and inequality
• Author Joel F. Handler
• Contributor Yeheskel Hasenfeld
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

Introduction
The state of poverty : TANF recipients
The response to poverty and inequality : the welfare state
Demonizing the single-mother family : the path to welfare reform
The welfare bureaucracy
Work and the low-wage labor market : mothers and children
Welfare reform and moral entrepreneurship : promoting marriage and responsible parenthood and preventing teenage pregnancy
Addressing poverty and inequality.

Topics

• Public welfare :: United States
• Family policy :: United States
• Welfare recipients :: Government policy :: United States
• Low-income single mothers :: Government policy :: United States
• Poor families :: Government policy :: United States
• Poverty :: United States
• 013552609

Blame welfare, ignore poverty and inequality by Joel F. Handler. ISBN 9780521690454. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.