We the Poor People: Work, Poverty, and Welfare

by Joel F. Handler and Joel F. Jandler

Book Overview

Current welfare reforms-including recently enacted federal legislation-are largely symbolic politics, argue two experts in this important new book. According to Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, the real problem we face is not the spread of welfare but the spread of poverty among the working poor, a group that includes most welfare recipients. The surest way to solve the problem is to create jobs and supplement low-wage work. The authors offer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300072503
• ISBN13: 9780300072501
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"