Faces of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children on Welfare

by Jill Duerr Berrick

Book Overview

Most Americans are insulated from the poor; it's hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of crime and victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child. Instead, we are often exposed to the rhetoric and hyperbole about the excesses of the American welfare system. These messages color our perception of the welfare problem in the United States and they close the American mind to a full understanding of the complexity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195097548
• ISBN13: 9780195097542
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"