Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity

By Kathleen Pickering, Mark H. Harvey, Gene F. Summers

Book Overview

Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty examines welfare participants who live in chronically poor rural areas of the United States where there are few job opportunities and poor systems of education, transportation, and child care. Pickering looks at welfare reform in four rural and impoverished regions of the United States.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271028785
• ISBN13: 9780271028781
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"