Living on the Edge in Suburbia: From Welfare to Workfare

by Terese Lawinski

Book Overview

Westchester County, New York, is thought of as suburban and affluent, but welfare reform hit hard here, too. The radical 1996 legislation created a temporary assistance program for poor families with harsher provisions than the program it replaced. It mandates workfare, meaning that recipients must work as a condition of benefit receipt. But the work parents obtain in the so-called flexible labor market--jobs like home health care aide--are inflexible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826517005
• ISBN13: 9780826517005
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"