Research Catalog

Title

Welfare reform / Ann Chih Lin, editor ; Kristin S. Seefeldt, author.

Author

Seefeldt, Kristin S.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

Lin, Ann Chih.

Description

xi, 272 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Introduces readers to the policy debate of welfare reform, presenting an overview of the issue; discussing politics, businesses and nonprofit organizations, and international implications; and providing a chronology, bibliographies, and several related articles and documents.

Series Statement

CQ's vital issues series

Uniform Title

CQ's vital issues series.

Subject

• Public welfare > United States
• Welfare recipients > United States
• United States > Social policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-163) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Issues, Viewpoints, and Trends / The CQ Researcher Welfare Reform Update -- Current Situation -- Politics and Policy -- Welfare and Welfare Reform: 1930s-1990s -- State Implementation of the Welfare Reform -- Delivery of Welfare Services Under TANF -- Looking Toward the Future: Possible Emerging Policy Issues -- Businesses and Nonprofit Organizations -- The Role of Businesses in Welfare Reform -- The Ups and Downs of For-Profits in Welfare Reform -- Business Involvement as Employers -- Nonprofit Organizations -- What Next for Businesses and Nonprofits in Welfare Reform? -- International Implications -- The Development of Social Welfare Systems -- Models of Welfare States -- Privatization and the Delivery of Welfare Services in Europe -- Economic Change and the European Welfare System -- Further Research and Chronology -- Facts, Policies, and Commentary -- California and the Wisconsin Welfare Waivers Experiments -- Examples of State Work First Policies -- Challenges with Welfare Privatization Policies -- Charles Murray and Losing Ground -- Long-Awaited Welfare Proposal Would Make Gradual Changes -- Reconciliation: GOP Produces Welfare Agreement, Urges Clinton to Sign On -- Welfare: Conference Report Highlights -- Presidential Veto Message: Welfare-to-Work Provisions Cited in Veto of Overhaul -- GOP Prepares to Act on Governors' Plan -- Clinton's Changing Welfare Views -- Presidential News Conference: Clinton Says Welfare Bill Is a 'Real Step Forward' -- Special Report/Social Policy--Issue: Welfare -- Provisions: Welfare Overhaul Law.

ISBN

• 1568026609 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1568026595 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001008381 ^

OCLC

48661123

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library