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Overcoming Welfare: Expecting More from the Poor-And from Ourselves
Overcoming Welfare Expecting More from the PoorAnd from Ourselves
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A fundamental goal of today's welfare reform is to practice "expectant giving": to demand constructive steps from the needy in exchange for assistance. This idea is not new. Since the nineteenth century, very generation of reformers has declared that handouts are harmful--Franklin Roosevelt called them " a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the... more »
Author:
A fundamental goal of today's welfare reform is to practice "expectant giving": to demand constructive steps from the needy in exchange for assistance. This idea is not new. Since the nineteenth century, very generation of reformers has declared that handouts are harmful--Franklin Roosevelt called them " a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the... more »
ISBN-13: 9780465069248
ISBN-10: 046506924X
Publication Date: 5/1998
Pages: 243
Rating: ?
ISBN-10: 046506924X
Publication Date: 5/1998
Pages: 243
Rating: ?
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Genres:
- Nonfiction >> Current Events >> Poverty >> Social Services & Welfare
- Politics & Social Sciences >> Government >> Social Policy
- Nonfiction >> Politics >> History & Theory
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General
