Essays based on the Work, Welfare, and Politics Conference held February 2000 hosted by the Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon. "Published in association with the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Welfare policy and American politics -- Welfare racism and its consequences: the demise of AFDC and the return of the states' rights era -- Not-so-rugged individualists: U.S. Americans' conflicting ideas about poverty -- What's wrong with welfare-to-work -- "Some of us are excellent at babies": paid work, mothering, and the construction of need in a welfare-to-work program -- What do sex and reproduction have to do with welfare? -- Welfare reform and the low-wage labor market -- Welfare reform and working poverty: job types, wage mobility and post-exit earnings of welfare recipients in North Carolina, 1995-1999 -- The effect of welfare reform on the incomes and earnings of low-income families: evidence from the current population survey -- Struggling to live and to learn: single mothers, welfare policy, and post-secondary education in Michigan -- Job training for welfare recipients: a hand up or a slap down? -- Opportunity and control: living welfare reform in Los Angeles county -- Talking across teh welfare divide -- Ties that bind: child support enforcement and welfare reform in Wisconsin -- The impact of welfare restructuring on economic and family wellbeing -- Making the transition to self-sufficiency in Oregon -- From war on poverty to war on welfare: the impact of welfare reform on the lives of immigrant women -- Integrating meaningful health and welfare reforms -- The effects of welfare reform on the characteristics of food stamp population -- Is welfare reform working in Arizona and Oregon? -- Welfare reform strategies and community-based organizations: the impact on family wellbeing in an urban neighborhood -- Toward a new politics.
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