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The Missing Safety Net and Families: A Progressive Critique of the New Welfare Legislation

Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: This is an overview essay on the 1996 welfare legislation and its consequences. The paper is divided into five parts: (1) The basic elements of the legislation; (2) The conservative assumptions undergirding this legislation and the progressive responses to them; (3) The consequences of the legislation for individuals and families; (4) The missing elements in the new welfare legislation; and (5) The progressive solution to welfare.
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2991815938
FWCI: 8.64
Cites: 26
Cited by: 23
Related to: 10