The Poverty of Welfare Reform

by Joel F. Jandler and Joel F. Handler

Book Overview

Once again, America is getting tough on welfare. Democrats and Republicans at both the national and state levels seem to have agreed that paying public funds to the poor-particularly to single mothers and their children-perpetuates dependency and undermines self-sufficiency and the work ethic. In this book Joel Handler, a national expert on welfare, points out the fallacies in the current proposals for welfare reform, arguing that they merely recycle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300064810
• ISBN13: 9780300064810
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"