The People’s Welfare

The People’s Welfare
Title The People’s Welfare PDF eBook
Author William J. Novak
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 409
Release 2000-11-09
Genre History
ISBN 0807863653

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Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety, political economy, public property, morality, and public health. Challenging the myth of American individualism, Novak recovers a distinctive nineteenth-century commitment to shared obligations and public duties in a well-regulated society. Novak explores the by-laws, ordinances, statutes, and common law restrictions that regulated almost every aspect of America's society and economy, including fire regulations, inspection and licensing rules, fair marketplace laws, the moral policing of prostitution and drunkenness, and health and sanitary codes. Based on a reading of more than one thousand court cases in addition to the leading legal and political texts of the nineteenth century, The People's Welfare demonstrates the deep roots of regulation in America and offers a startling reinterpretation of the history of American governance.

Why Americans Hate Welfare

Why Americans Hate Welfare
Title Why Americans Hate Welfare PDF eBook
Author Martin Gilens
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 308
Release 2009-05-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0226293661

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Tackling one of the most volatile issues in contemporary politics, Martin Gilens's work punctures myths and misconceptions about welfare policy, public opinion, and the role of the media in both. Why Americans Hate Welfare shows that the public's views on welfare are a complex mixture of cynicism and compassion; misinformed and racially charged, they nevertheless reflect both a distrust of welfare recipients and a desire to do more to help the "deserving" poor. "With one out of five children currently living in poverty and more than 100,000 families with children now homeless, Gilens's book is must reading if you want to understand how the mainstream media have helped justify, and even produce, this state of affairs." —Susan Douglas, The Progressive "Gilens's well-written and logically developed argument deserves to be taken seriously." —Choice "A provocative analysis of American attitudes towards 'welfare.'. . . [Gilens] shows how racial stereotypes, not white self-interest or anti-statism, lie at the root of opposition to welfare programs." -Library Journal

Public Welfare Law

Public Welfare Law
Title Public Welfare Law PDF eBook
Author David Super
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2017
Genre Public welfare
ISBN 9781628103472

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Policing Welfare

Policing Welfare
Title Policing Welfare PDF eBook
Author Spencer Headworth
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 304
Release 2021-05-11
Genre Political Science
ISBN 022677953X

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Means-tested government assistance in the United States requires recipients to meet certain criteria and continue to maintain their eligibility so that benefits are paid to the “truly needy.” Welfare is regarded with such suspicion in this country that considerable resources are spent policing the boundaries of eligibility, which are delineated by an often confusing and baroque set of rules and regulations. Even minor infractions of the many rules can cause people to be dropped from these programs, and possibly face criminal prosecution. In this book, Spencer Headworth offers the first study of the structure of fraud control in the welfare system by examining the relations between different levels of governmental agencies, from federal to local, and their enforcement practices. Policing Welfare shows how the enforcement regime of welfare has been constructed to further stigmatize those already living in poverty and deepens disparities of class, race, and gender in our society.

Regulating the Poor

Regulating the Poor
Title Regulating the Poor PDF eBook
Author Frances Fox Piven
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 296
Release 1956
Genre
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Living on the Edge

Living on the Edge
Title Living on the Edge PDF eBook
Author Mark R. Rank
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 292
Release 1994
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780231084246

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Based on ten years of research, the book follows individuals and families as they apply for and live on public aid and eventually leave the system. Rank's chronicle of their day-to-day experiences reveals the many sacrifices and crises that tax ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Beginning with a history of welfare from Roosevelt to Clinton, he focuses on AFDC and the Food Stamp program. He then describes the backgrounds of the recipients, their hopes for the future and attitudes toward welfare, their daily routines and problems, their work behavior, and the effect of welfare on family dynamics. Living on the Edge reveals the experiences of female-headed families, married couples, single men and women, and the elderly.

Economics and the Public Welfare

Economics and the Public Welfare
Title Economics and the Public Welfare PDF eBook
Author Benjamin McAlester Anderson
Publisher Laissez Faire Books
Pages 644
Release 1949
Genre United States
ISBN 1621290654

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