Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty

by Sanford F. Schram

Book Overview

Offers an important and enlightening critique of how welfare policy is analyzed and set in the U.S., illustrating that how we study issues affects what ultimately gets done about them. Issues examined include the drawing of the poverty line, the setting of benefit levels, the feminization of poverty, homelessness, the underclass, welfare dependency, recent attempts to reform welfare, and the implications for welfare in the emerging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816625786
• ISBN13: 9780816625789
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"