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Poor Children and Welfare Reform » Read Now
by Olivia Golden, Lisbeth Schorr. 193 pgs.

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Welfare departments often emphasize efficiency and speed in their relationships with the poor. Such emphases do not favor an understanding of and a coping with families' and children's needs. Golden links two critical policy areas: the way agencies relate to families on welfare and their economic...
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Welfare departments often emphasize efficiency and speed in their relationships with the poor. Such emphases do not favor an understanding of and a coping with families' and children's needs. Golden links two critical policy areas: the way agencies relate to families on welfare and their economic status, and what those agencies can and must do to improve services for needy children. How can welfare programs be better used in the future to reach children at the time of their lives when services can make the most difference? The author's recommendations are practical and operational in nature.
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Faces of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children on Welfare » Read Now
by Jill Duerr Berrick. 214 pgs.

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Most Americans are insulated from the poor; it's hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of crime and victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child. Instead, we are often exposed to the rhetoric and hyperbole about the excesses of the American welfare...
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Most Americans are insulated from the poor; it's hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of crime and victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child. Instead, we are often exposed to the rhetoric and hyperbole about the excesses of the American welfare system. These messages color our perception of the welfare problem in the United States and they close the American mind to a full understanding of the complexity of family poverty. But who are these poor families? What do we know about how they arrived in such desperate straits? Is poverty their fate for a lifetime or for only a brief period? In Faces of Poverty, Jill Duerr Berrick answers these questions as she dispels the misconceptions and myths about welfare and the welfare population that have clouded the true picture of poverty in America. Over the course of a year, Berrick spent numerous hours as a participant-observer with five women and their families, documenting their daily activities, thoughts, and fears as they managed the strains of poverty. We meet Ana, Sandy, Rebecca, Darlene, and Cora, all of whom, at some point, have turned to welfare for support. Each represents a wider segment of the welfare population--ranging from Ana (who lost a business, injured her back, and temporarily lost her job, all in a short period of time) to Cora (who was raised in poverty, spent ten years in an abusive relationship, and now struggles to raise six children in a drug-infested neighborhood). And as Berrick documents these women's experiences, she also debunks many of the myths about welfare: she reveals that welfare is not generous (welfare families remain below the poverty line even with government assistance); that the majority of women on welfare are not long-term welfare dependents; that welfare does not run in families; that "welfare mothers" do not keep having children to increase their payments (women on welfare have, on average, two children); and that almost half of all women on welfare turned to it after a divorce. At a time when welfare has become a hotly debated political issue, Faces of Poverty gives us the facts. The debate surrounding welfare will continue as each of the 50 states struggles to reform their welfare programs, and this debate will turn on the public's perception of the welfare population. Berrick offers insight into each of the reforms under consideration and starkly demonstrates their implications for poor women and children. She provides a window into these women's lives, brilliantly portraying their hopes and fears and their struggle to live with dignity.
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Children of the Urban Poor: The Sociocultural Environment of Growth, Development, and Malnutrition in Guatemala City » Read Now
by Francis E. Johnston, Setha M. Low. 192 pgs.

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Separate and Unequal: America's Children, Race, and Poverty, in The Future of Children » Read Now
by Marian Wright Edelman, James M. Jones. 3 pgs.

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Child Poverty in the American States: The Impact of Welfare Reform, Economics, and Demographics, in Policy Studies Journal » Read Now
by Harrell R. Rodgers Jr., Lee Payne. 21 pgs.

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Welfare Reform and Child Care Options for Low-Income Families, in The Future of Children » Read Now
by Bruce Fuller, Sharon L. Kagan, Gretchen L. Caspary, Christiane A. Gauthier. 23 pgs.

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...wholesome environment for children in poverty. This movement first emerged...from the National Center for Children in Poverty, total state funding for early...University...
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The New Politics of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor in America ("Children" begins on p. 118) » Read Now
by Lawrence M. Mead. 356 pgs.

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The Vulnerable Child: What Really Hurts America's Children and What We Can Do about It ("Poverty: Quiet Catastrophes" begins on p. 9, and "Broke but Not Broken: The Positive Fates of Poor Children" begins on p. 16) » Read Now
by Richard Weissbourd. 280 pgs.

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What the Market Does to People: Privatization, Globalization, and Poverty » Read Now
by David Macarov. 183 pgs.

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On the Edge: A History of Poor Black Children and Their American Dreams » Read Now
by Carl Husemoller Nightingale. 258 pgs.

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The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Britain and Germany Compared, in Journal of Comparative Family Studies » Read Now
by Stephen P. Jenkins, Christian Schluter, Gert G. Wagner. 16 pgs.

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Child Poverty and Family Structure in Canada, 1981-1997, in Journal of Comparative Family Studies » Read Now
by Don Kerr, Roderic Beaujot. 13 pgs.

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Trends in Demography of Childhood Poverty and Disability, in Exceptional Children » Read Now
by Glenn T. Fujiura, Kiyoshi Yamaki. 14 pgs.

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...American families with children lived in poverty in 1997, up from 10.8...special education: "As poverty among children has increased in the United...All Children Above...
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The Immunisation Status of Poor Children: An Analysis of Parental Altruism and Child Well-Being, in Review of Social Economy » Read Now
by John J. Hisnanick, Dale A. Coddington. 27 pgs.

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...al. 1994). The impact of poverty on children is a direct consequence of...costs to society. The risk of poverty to children are numerous and confounding...and Korenman, S...