Ending Welfare as We Know It
Title | Ending Welfare as We Know It PDF eBook |
Author | R. Kent Weaver |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2000-08-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0815798350 |
Bill Clinton's first presidential term was a period of extraordinary change in policy toward low-income families. In 1993 Congress enacted a major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families. In 1996 Congress passed and the president signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. This legislation abolished the sixty-year-old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and replaced it with a block grant program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. It contained stiff new work requirements and limits on the length of time people could receive welfare benefits.Dramatic change in AFDC was also occurring piecemeal in the states during these years. States used waivers granted by the federal Department of Health and Human Services to experiment with a variety of welfare strategies, including denial of additional benefits for children born or conceived while a mother received AFDC, work requirements, and time limits on receipt of cash benefits. The pace of change at the state level accelerated after the 1996 federal welfare reform legislation gave states increased leeway to design their programs. Ending Welfare as We Know It analyzes how these changes in the AFDC program came about. In fourteen chapters, R. Kent Weaver addresses three sets of questions about the politics of welfare reform: the dismal history of comprehensive AFDC reform initiatives; the dramatic changes in the welfare reform agenda over the past thirty years; and the reasons why comprehensive welfare reform at the national level succeeded in 1996 after failing in 1995, in 1993–94, and on many previous occasions. Welfare reform raises issues of race, class, and sex that are as difficult and divisive as any in American politics. While broad social and political trends helped to create a historic opening for welfare reform in the late 1990s, dramatic legislation was not inevitable. The interaction of contextual factors with short
The War on Welfare
Title | The War on Welfare PDF eBook |
Author | Marisa Chappell |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2012-02-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812201566 |
Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan Revolution—and not necessarily by the Right. The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America traces what Bill Clinton famously called "the end of welfare as we know it" to the grassroots of the War on Poverty thirty years earlier. Marshaling a broad variety of sources, historian Marisa Chappell provides a fresh look at the national debate about poverty, welfare, and economic rights from the 1960s through the mid-1990s. In Chappell's telling, we experience the debate over welfare from multiple perspectives, including those of conservatives of several types, liberal antipoverty experts, national liberal organizations, labor, government officials, feminists of various persuasions, and poor women themselves. During the Johnson and Nixon administrations, deindustrialization, stagnating wages, and widening economic inequality pushed growing numbers of wives and mothers into the workforce. Yet labor unions, antipoverty activists, and moderate liberal groups fought to extend the fading promise of the family wage to poor African Americans families through massive federal investment in full employment and income support for male breadwinners. In doing so, however, these organizations condemned programs like Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) for supposedly discouraging marriage and breaking up families. Ironically their arguments paved the way for increasingly successful right-wing attacks on both "welfare" and the War on Poverty itself.
Ending Welfare as We Know it
Title | Ending Welfare as We Know it PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Tanner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Aid to families with dependent children programs |
ISBN |
$2.00 a Day
Title | $2.00 a Day PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Edin |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0544303180 |
The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists--from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention" (New York Times)
"Ending Welfare as We Know It"
Title | "Ending Welfare as We Know It" PDF eBook |
Author | Joel F. Handler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Aid to families with dependent children programs |
ISBN |
The End of Welfare
Title | The End of Welfare PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Tanner |
Publisher | Cato Institute |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781882577378 |
Argues for the abolishment of the current system.
The End of Welfare as We Know It?
Title | The End of Welfare as We Know It? PDF eBook |
Author | Philipp Sandermann |
Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2014-01-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3847403389 |
During the last 30 years, the governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of contemporary social science research assumes that, in fact, the end of the welfare state has already occurred. The authors of this volume hope to contribute to a clearer understanding of how, where and to what extent welfare state settings really have changed since the 1980s. Their work examines questions of change and continuity while exploring various welfare practices in the Western world.