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The Handbook of Families and Poverty covers hotly debated issues associated with public policy and funded research as they relate to families and poverty. Contributors, bringing multiple perspectives to bear, aim to show alternatives to welfare in subgroups facing specific challenges that are currently not adequately addressed by the welfare system. Readers will appreciate the insightful summaries of research involving poverty and its relationship to couple, marital, and family dynamics.
Innovation in Social Policy: Evaluating State Efforts to Reform Welfare, Promote Work, and Help Low-Income Families
Innovation in Social Policy: Evaluating State Efforts to Reform Welfare, Promote Work, and Help Low-Income Families
In 1996, Congress and the Clinton administration enacted a remarkable change in social policy in the United States, upending the conventional expectation that policy change only occurs incrementally. The new welfare law passed that year ended decades of a federal entitlement of cash assistance for poor families and gave states much more discretion to fashion the details of how they would help families move from welfare to work. Then presidential candidate Bill Clinton's promise in 1992 to end welfare as we know it put a Democratic imprimatur on welfare reform and created a political window ...
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