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Overcoming welfare : expecting more from the poor--and from ourselves / James L. Payne.
Author
Payne, James L.
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Language
English
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1st ed.
Published/Created
New York : Basic Books, c1998.
Description
xii, 243 p. ; 24 cm.
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HV91 .P38 1998
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Public welfare
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United States
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Poor
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Government policy
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United States
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Welfare recipients
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United States
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United States
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Social policy
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1993-
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Summary note
Discusses why welfare reform does not work and offers strategies for restructuring the system so that it benefits Americans and encourages them to try and help themselves.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-233) and index.
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
pt. I. Giving Right, Giving Wrong. 1. The Policy Nobody Wants. 2. Helping Those in Need: Basic Principles. 3. Buying Trouble: The Problems with Sympathetic Giving. 4. "A More Excellent Way of Charity"
pt. II. The Roots of Failure. 5. How Government Gives. 6. Paying for Failure. 7. Can the Poor Survive Income Redistribution. 8. What Social Workers Believe
pt. III. Varieties of Expectant Giving. 9. The Health of Commerce. 10. Charitable Capitalism. 11. Contracting for Uplift. 12. Friends Who Inspire
pt. IV. Paths for the Future. 13. The Key to Reforming Government Welfare Programs. 14. The Brave New World of Voluntary Charity. 15. How to Help the Poor
Bibliography: The Nineteenth-Century Charity Theorists.
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ISBN
046506924X
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^^^98005360^
OCLC
38295157
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H - S
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