Download or read book Public Assistance Programs for Poor Women in Massachusetts written by Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators. Task Force on Women and Poverty and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For Crying Out Loud written by Diane Dujon and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together the words of welfare mothers, activists and advocates, as well as scholars in a poignant and powerful challenge to the impoverishment of women.
Download or read book Welfare Politics in Boston 1910 1940 written by Susan Traverso and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The campaign for widows' pensions, for example, won wide popular support, even as public welfare programs that would primarily benefit men - such as unemployment insurance and old age assistance - initially failed to gain acceptance.".
Download or read book Doing Without written by Jane Henrici and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in dramatically reducing the number of people receiving public assistance, most of whom were women with children. Today, however, more than a decade later, these successes seem far less spectacular. Although the total number of welfare recipients has dropped by more than fifty percent nationwide, evidence shows that poverty has actually deepened. Many hardworking women are no better off for having returned to the workplace. In Doing Without, Jane Henrici brings together nine contributions to tell the story of welfare reform from inside the lives of the women who live with it. Cases from Chicago and Boston are combined with a focus on San Antonio from one of the largest multi-city investigations on welfare reform ever undertaken. The contributors argue that the employment opportunities available to poorer women, particularly single mothers and ethnic minorities, are insufficient to lift their families out of poverty. Typically marked by variable hours, inadequate wages, and short-term assignments, both employment and training programs fail to provide stability or the kinds of benefitsÑsuch as health insurance, sick days, and childcare optionsÑthat are necessary to sustain both work and family life. The chapters also examine the challenges that the women who seek assistance, and those who work in public and private agencies to provide it, together must face as they navigate ever-changing requirements and regulations, decipher alterations in Medicaid, and apply for training and education. Contributors urge that the nation should repair the social safety net for women in transition and offer genuine access to jobs with wages that actually meet the cost of living.
Download or read book Examination of the War on Poverty written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H R 2246 Jobs for Employable Dependent Individuals JEDI written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parenting in Public written by Donna Haig Friedman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When parents must rely on public assistance and family shelters to provide for their children's most basic needs, they lose autonomy. Within a system of public assistance that already stigmatizes and isolates its beneficiaries, their family lives become subject to public scrutiny and criticism. They are parenting in public. This book is an in-depth examination of the realities of life for parents and their children in family shelters. The author uses the Massachusetts family shelter system to explore the impact of asset and deficit-oriented help-giving approaches as they are experienced by mothers and service providers. The format of the book is unique. Following each chapter are the "reflections" of a mother who has parented in a shelter, a front-line worker, and a shelter director. The author and contributors propose a "Power With" policy and practice framework that runs counter to the prevailing "Power Over" cultural policy trends. Contributors include Rosa Clark, Brenda Farrell, Deborah Gray, Michele Kahan, Margaret A. Leonard, Mary T. Lewis, Nancy Schwoyer, and Elizabeth Ward.
Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Download or read book Poor Women Poor Children written by Rodgers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents the most recent data on poverty, family structure and participation in welfare programmes. It analyses the causes for the continuing rise in female-headed households, the high rates of poverty among such families, and evaluates past, present and future reform policies.
Download or read book Examination of the War on Poverty Boston Mass June 1 1967 Springfield Mass June 2 1967 New Bedford Mass June 2 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing of Long term Care written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laboring to Learn written by Lorna Rivera and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle for literacy, education, and employment for women during welfare reform
Download or read book Oversight Hearing on the Community Service Block Grant written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Work Education and Training Opportunities for Welfare Recipients written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographies of Privilege written by France Winddance Twine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)? The case studies in Geographies of Privilege demonstrate how power operates and is activated within local, national, and global networks. Twine and Gardener have put together a collection that analyzes how the centrality of spaces (domestic, institutional, leisure, educational) are central to the production, maintenance and transformation of inequalities. The collected readings show how power--in the form of economic, social, symbolic, and cultural capital--is employed and experienced. The volume’s contributors take the reader to diverse sites, including brothels, blues clubs, dance clubs, elite schools, detention centers, advocacy organizations, and public sidewalks in Canada, Italy, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Mozambique, South Africa, and the United States. Geographies of Privilege is the perfect teaching tool for courses on social problems, race, class and gender in Geography, Sociology and Anthropology.
Download or read book Contract with America welfare Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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