| Description |
ix, 185 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
The reference shelf ; v. 81, no. 3
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Reference shelf ; v. 81, no. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index. |
| Contents |
The other America / Jonathan Alter -- The changing face of poverty in America / William E. Spriggs -- Poverty Row / Jeffrey M. Jones -- Poverty is back! / Ezra Klein -- We don't need another war on poverty / Stephen Malanga -- How welfare reform worked / Kay S. Hymowitz -- Using carrots and sticks / Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill -- Is welfare working? / Jonathan Walters -- Unfinished business / Thomas Massaro -- Welfare aid isn't growing as economy drops off / Jason De Parle -- Reforming medicaid / John C. Goodman and Devon M. Herrick -- Something of value / Gary Enos -- SCHIP and beyond / Jonathan Walters -- An immoral philosophy / Paul Krugman -- Sleepwalking toward DD-Day / George F. Will -- Boost for SCHIP / Jennifer Lubell -- Hungry in America / Trudy Lieberman -- Reflections on the Food Stamp Program / Bonny O'Neil -- Food stamps and obesity / Michele Ver Ploeg and Katherine Ralston -- Food stamps -- Hunger hysteria / Robert Rector -- 2008 farm act makes it easier for food assistance households to save / Margaret Andrews -- Improving food choices - can food stamps do more? / Joanne F. Guthrie, et al. -- Balancing nutrition, participation, and cost in the National School Lunch Program / Constance Newman, Katherine Ralston, and Annette Clauson -- Are shelters the answer to family homelessness? / Ralph da Costa Nunez and Laura M. Caruso -- As program moves poor to suburbs, tensions follow / Solomon Moore -- Disability cases last longer as backlog rises / Erik Eckholm -- Embracing the exiles -- Starting right / Joan Lombardi -- For Head Start, a marathon run / Linda Jacobson and Daniel Sheehan. |
| Subject |
Public welfare -- United States.
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Public welfare. |
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United States. |
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Poor -- Services for -- United States.
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Poor -- Services for. |
| Added Author |
Roush, Margaret.
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| Added Title |
Social services for the poor |
| ISBN |
9780824210908 alkaline paper |
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0824210905 alkaline paper |
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