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Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond

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Creators: Randy Albelda, Ann Withorn, Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: South End Press
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 300
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.6 x 0.8

ISBN: 0896086593
Dewey Decimal Number: 361.60973
EAN: 9780896086593
ASIN: 0896086593

Publication Date: May 1, 2002
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Product Description
This who's who of social scientists and activists takes on welfare reform and suggests other strategies to end poverty. 2002 marks the fifth anniversary of federal welfare reform in the US, and politicians and human rights advocates will soon be debating the re-authorisation of new requirements for poor women and families receiving aid. This anthology analyses welfare in the context of broad political shifts, and posits more effective means for ending poverty.

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3 out of 5 stars

Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond January 10, 2007
Compilation of many writers' summations of America's welfare policies and attitudes over the years, and how the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 adversely affected the poorest in our country. Very informative, but bogs down in the middle as several narratives are rather redundant. Be sure to read the last chapter!

5 out of 5 stars

A very wide area of controversial issues October 8, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Collaboratively compiled and edited by Randy Albelda (Economics, University of Massachusetts) and Ann Withorn (Social Policy, University of Massachusetts), Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, And Beyond is a scholarly selection of impressive essays by a variety of learned authors on topics relating to American welfare policy. From the effects of globalization on the current system, to fallacies of welfare-to-work policies, to issues of the rights of women and people of color, Lost Ground covers a very wide area of controversial issues often conveniently ignored by today's too-eager politics. Lost Ground is a welcome and strongly recommended addition to academic reference collections and reading lists in the area of American social policy in general, and welfare reform in particular.

5 out of 5 stars

Another great book from AK Press August 17, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

The downside of welfare reforn is well documented in this new anthology. Moreover, welfare issues are analyzed in the context of broad political shifts, including globalization, the end of the family wage, the sexual revolution, and rise of black liberation, feminism, and multiculturalism.

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