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The authors argue that the personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, popularly known as welfare "reform", offers neither work opportunity nor real reform. In repealing the entitlement to welfare and failing to create an entitlement to work - at the same time as it imposes strict, time-limited work requirements - Washington has, in effect, written a new Poor Law.

Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare "Reform" and the Roads Not Taken, 1935 to the Present

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Hardback by Sheila D. Collins , Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg

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The authors argue that the personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, popularly known as welfare "reform", offers neither work... Read more

    Publisher: Apex Press
    Publication Date: 01/07/2001
    ISBN13: 9780945257844, 978-0945257844
    ISBN10: 0945257848

    Number of Pages: 518

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    The authors argue that the personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, popularly known as welfare "reform", offers neither work opportunity nor real reform. In repealing the entitlement to welfare and failing to create an entitlement to work - at the same time as it imposes strict, time-limited work requirements - Washington has, in effect, written a new Poor Law.

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