The human cost of welfare : how the system hurts the people it's supposed to help /: how the system hurts the people it's supposed to help. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Phil Harvey and Lisa Conyers ; foreword by Jonathan Rauch.
• Authors: Harvey, Philip D, 1938-; Conyers, Lisa
• Contents: Figures, Tables, and AppendicesForeword by Jonathan RauchAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Welfare Reforms Need ReformingPart I. The Welfare ConflictChapter 1. What Does Work Have to Do with Happiness?Chapter 2. The War Between Welfare and WorkPart II. The Counterproductive Qualifications for WelfareChapter 3. What Counts as PovertyChapter 4. Marriage, Childbearing, and Teen PregnancyPart III. Welfare Programs in Theory and in FactChapter 5. TANF: The Changing Face of Cash AssistanceChapter 6. A Housing System Leaves the Needy Out in the ColdChapter 7. Who Gets Food Stamps?Chapter 8. WIC: Missteps with Women and ChildrenChapter 9. How We Disable the DisabledChapter 10. Medicaid and the Affordable Care ActChapter 11. The Earned Income Tax Credit: Welfare Done (Almost) RightPart IV. Building Blocks for a Better Welfare SystemChapter 12. Patterns of Dependence and Independence: American Indians on Reservations, Barterers, and ImmigrantsChapter 13. What Should Be Done: From Incentives to Special Savings Accounts, Solutions Abound to Get Americans Back to WorkNotesBibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Praeger
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 362.5/8; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; Public welfare -- United States; Welfare recipients -- United States; Poor -- United States; Social welfare & social services; United States -- Social policy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216099741
• Related ISBNs: 9781440845345
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