Doing Without: Women and Work After Welfare Reform Hardcover - 2006
by Jane Henrici (Editor)
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The welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in dramatically reducing the number of people receiving public assistance, most of whom were women with children. Today, however, more than a decade later, these successes seem far less spectacular. Although the total number of welfare recipients has dropped by more than fifty percent nationwide, evidence shows that poverty has actually deepened. Many hardworking women are no better off for having returned to the workplace. In Doing Without, Jane Henrici brings together nine contributions to tell the story of welfare reform from inside the lives of the women who live with it. Cases from Chicago and Boston are combined with a focus on San Antonio from one of the largest multi-city investigations on welfare reform ever undertaken. The contributors argue that the employment opportunities available to poorer women, particularly single mothers and ethnic minorities, are insufficient to lift their families out of poverty. Typically marked by variable hours, inadequate wages, and short-term assignments, both employment and training programs fail to provide stability or the kinds of benefitsasuch as health insurance, sick days, and childcare optionsathat are necessary to sustain both work and family life. The chapters also examine the challenges that the women who seek assistance, and those who work in public and private agencies to provide it, together must face as they navigate ever-changing requirements and regulations, decipher alterations in Medicaid, and apply for training and education. Contributors urge that the nation should repair the social safety net for women in transition and offergenuine access to jobs with wages that actually meet the cost of living.
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- Title Doing Without: Women and Work After Welfare Reform
- Author Jane Henrici (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona
- Date September 30, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780816525126 / 0816525129
- Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.32 x 0.79 in (23.62 x 16.05 x 2.01 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Public welfare - United States, United States - Social policy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006008572
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.838
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 166
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