Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
by Sharon Hays
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Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2.1 million in 2001. But what does this ""success"" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke, With Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of welfare reform from inside the welfare office and inside the lives of welfare mothers, describing the challenges that welfare recipients face in managing their work, their show more families, and the rules and regulations of welfare reform. Welfare reform, experienced on the ground, i show lessTags
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carlym [Flat Broke with Children] references Eden and Lein's work.
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I will admit that in the years of welfare reform, I was among those who applauded it. I personally knew people who were lifetime welfare recipients (or so it seemed to me), but reading this book made me feel ashamed of my across-the-board lumping of all welfare recipients into this category.
I was wrong. This book is an eye-opener into the vicious cycle of the lives of mother's dependent on public assistance.
I was wrong. This book is an eye-opener into the vicious cycle of the lives of mother's dependent on public assistance.
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Sharon Hays is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Virginia.
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- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 362.83920973
- Canonical LCC
- HV95
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Economics, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 362.83920973 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare Problems of and services to other groups Women
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- HV95 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. By region or country
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- English
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