My Library


     
Limit search to available items
Limited to: Words in TITLE "human cost of welfare"

Book Cover
Book
Title The human cost of welfare : how the system hurts the people it's supposed to help / Phil Harvey and Lisa Conyers ; foreword by Jonathan Rauch.
Publisher Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2016]
Description xxii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm


LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 EI-Adult Collection  362.58 HAR Nearby on shelf  30626003093198 07-24-17  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197) and index.
Contents Part I Welfare Conflict -- Part II Counterproductive Qualifications for Welfare -- Part III Welfare Programs in Theory and in Fact -- Part IV Building Blocks for a Better Welfare System.
Summary Unlike other books on welfare, this one draws on the stories of more than 100 welfare recipients who are trapped in a system that keeps them underemployed and unemployed. The authors present case studies that show that being a part of a welfare program can actively result in the recipients having to limit their job efforts for fear of losing government assistance. The book examines all major U.S. welfare systems, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, SNAP, Medicaid, and others. The authors begin by exploring the nation's basic poverty issues and examining the relationship between work and happiness. Next, they zero in on specific welfare programs, reporting both on their dollar costs and on the ways that they fail enrollees. THe book then concludes with strategies for addressing the shortcomings of the current U.S. welfare system. This book is appropriate for readers interested in public policy, government programs, welfare, and cultural shifts in America. It adds a new perspective to the existing body of welfare scholarship by systematically assessing the impact of welfare on the recipients themselves. -- from dust jacket.
Subject Public welfare -- United States.
Welfare recipients -- United States.
Poor -- United States.
United States -- Social policy.
Add'l Names Conyers, Lisa, author.
ISBN 9781440845345
1440845344
STANDARD # 2015039114