Screen LibraryU.S. social welfare reform：policy transitions from 1981 to the present
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Springer Science+Business Media, LLC,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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International series on consumer science |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7674-1 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xv, 307 p.): ill. |
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9781441976741 (electronic bk.) 1441976744 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | C91 |
| CLC: | C91 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. & Quot;U.S. Social Welfare Reform" examines pivotal changes in social welfare for low-income families in the United States between 1981, the advent of the Reagan administration, and 2008, the end of the G.W. Bush administration. It focuses on the change from the Federal-state open entitlement Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program to the time-limited state run Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program which Congress authorized with passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. The book also focuses on the development of the Earned Inco. |