Welfare: A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics

by Rickie Solinger

Book Overview

Federal welfare policy has been a political and cultural preoccupation in the United States for nearly seven decades. Debates about who poor people are, how they got that way, and what the government should do about poverty were particularly bitter and misleading at the end of the twentieth century. These public discussions left most Americans with far more attitude than information about poverty, the poor, and poverty policy in the United States.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814756549
• ISBN13: 9780814756546
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 817 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.9" x 10.0"