Flat broke with children : women in the age of welfare reform / Sharon Hays

Author: Hays, Sharon, 1956-
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Physical Description: x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

Money and morality -- Enforcing the work ethic -- Promoting family values -- Fear, hope, and resignation in the welfare office -- Pyramids of inequality -- Invisibility and inclusion -- Cultures of poverty -- The "success" of welfare reform.

Subject(s)

United States. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
Public welfare—United States
Welfare recipients—United States
Poor women—United States
Mothers—United States
Low-income single mothers—United States

ISBN

0195132882 (acid-free paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-279) and index.

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