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Putting poor people to work : how the work-first idea eroded college access for the poor
- Title
- Putting poor people to work : how the work-first idea eroded college access for the poor / Kathleen M. Shaw [and others].
- Publication
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Shaw, Kathleen M.
- Description
- x, 199 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Using comprehensive interviews with government officials and sophisticated data from six states over a four-year period, Putting Poor People to Work shows how recent changes in public policy have reduced the quantity and quality of education and training available to adults to low incomes. The authors analyze how two policies encouraging work - the federal welfare reform law of 1996 and the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 - have made moving people off of public assistance as soon as possible a government priority, with little regard to their long-term career prospects.
- Putting Poor People to Work shows that since the passage of these "work-first" laws, not only are fewer low-income individuals pursuing postsecondary education, but when they do, they are increasingly directed toward the most ineffective, short-term forms of training, rather than higher-quality college-level education. Moreover, the schools most able and ready to serve poor adults - the community colleges - are deterred by these policies from doing so."--Jacket.
- Subject
- United States
- Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (United States)
- People with social disabilities > Education (Higher) > United States
- Poor > Education (Higher) > United States
- Public welfare > United States
- People with social disabilities > Education (Higher)
- Poor > Education (Higher)
- Public welfare
- Arbeitsverhältnis
- Armut
- Höhere Schule
- Unterschicht
- United States
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-187) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The emergence of the work-first prescription -- Welfare reform and access to postsecondary education: national trends -- The implementation of welfare reform: consistency and change -- The workforce investment act: investment or disinvestment? -- The implementation of WIA: does the rhetoric match the reality? -- The power of work-first: implications and future trends.
- ISBN
- 0871547759
- 9780871547750
- 9780871547767
- 0871547767
- LCCN
- 2006043946
- 9780871547750
- OCLC
- ocm65407597
- 65407597
- SCSB-8920036
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library