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We the poor people : work, poverty, and welfare
- Title
- We the poor people : work, poverty, and welfare / Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld.
- Author
- Handler, Joel F.
- Publication
- New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©1997.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hasenfeld, Yeheskel.
- Description
- xii, 281 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Current welfare reforms - including recently enacted federal legislation - are largely symbolic politics, argue two experts in this important new book. According to Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, the real problem we face is not the spread of welfare but the spread of poverty among the working poor, a group that includes most welfare recipients. The surest way to solve the problem is to create jobs and supplement low-wage work. The authors offer proposals that would make it possible for individuals to support themselves and their families through working and that would establish a safety net for the relatively few individuals who are unable to do so.
- Series Statement
- A Yale fastback
- Uniform Title
- Yale fastback
- Subject
- Public welfare > United States
- Welfare recipients > Employment > United States
- Poverty > United States
- Poverty
- Public welfare
- Welfare recipients > Employment
- Armut
- Beschäftigung
- Sozialhilfe
- Sozialhilfeempfänger
- poverty alleviation
- social protection
- employment
- social policy
- social reform
- social assistance
- social service
- family welfare
- work incentive
- guaranteed income
- working mother
- female headed household
- child care
- youth unemployment
- unemployment benefit
- employment creation
- employment service
- wages
- low wages
- statistical table
- Poverty > United States
- Public welfare > United States
- Welfare recipients > Employment > United States
- lutte contre la pauvreté
- protection sociale
- emploi
- politique sociale
- réforme sociale
- assistance sociale
- services sociaux
- bien-être familial
- incitation au travail
- revenu garanti
- mère exerçant un emploi
- femme-chef de famille
- soins aux enfants
- chômage des jeunes
- prestations de chômage
- création d'emploi
- service de l'emploi
- salaire
- bas salaire
- tableau statistique
- lucha contra la pobreza
- protección social
- empleo
- política social
- reforma social
- asistencia social
- servicios sociales
- bienestar familiar
- incentivo al trabajo
- ingreso garantizado
- trabajadora madre de familia
- mujer cabeza de familia
- cuidado infantil
- desempleo de jóvenes
- prestaciones por desempleo
- creación de empleos
- servicio de empleo
- salario
- salario bajo
- cuadros estadísticos
- United States
- USA
- USA
- Etats-Unis
- Estados Unidos
- Genre/Form
- bibliography.
- bibliographie.
- bibliografía.
- Note
- "A Twentieth Century Fund book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-268) and index.
- Contents
- The fixation on work versus welfare -- The choices we make -- Welfare programs: history and structure -- Work, recipients, and poverty -- Work programs: myth and reality -- New directions -- Jobs, income, and employment support -- Employment-related benefits -- Employment services -- Teenage parents and welfare.
- ISBN
- 0300072481
- 9780300072488
- 0300072503
- 9780300072501
- LCCN
- 97017475
- OCLC
- ocm36949741
- 36949741
- SCSB-2135332
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library