Have Families Fared Well From Welfare Reform? Educating Clinicians About Policy, Paradox, and Change  

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Wycoff, Susan ; Bacod-Gebhardt, Maristella ; Cameron, Susan ; Brandt, Marielle ; Armes, Bruce

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Family Journal vol. 10 no. 3 (Jul. 2002), page 269-280.
Fulltext: 269TFJ103.pdf (80.12KB)

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This invited article examines findings from lower profile studies suggesting another side of the bipartisan declaration that America’s experiment with welfare reform has been a resounding success. The authors draw on national survey data, studies by state and private research institutions, and available figures from informal communitybased monitoring projects. Findings reveal evidence of an escalation of inadequately paid employment, an increase in extreme nationwide childhood poverty, signs of mounting family hardship, and challenges affecting the survival and well-being of this vulnerable population leaving welfare. If we put the same effort, worry, and bother into improving our society that we do in propping up some fool over his people, or selling cat food, or in putting pink stripes into toothpaste,we would have solved many of our social problems long ago. If we put the same effort, worry, and bother into societal reform, that we do in building bombs, or in advertising cigarettes, and booze, or in putting the white

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