Welfare by Gwendolyn Mink, Rickie Solinger, Frances Fox Piven - 9780814756546

WelfareA Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics\nAuthor(s): Gwendolyn Mink, Rickie Solinger, Frances Fox Piven\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814756546, 978-0814756546\nSynopsis\nFederal welfare policy has been a political and cultural preoccupation in the United States for nearly seven decades. Debates about who poor people are, how they got that way, and what the government should do about poverty were particularly bitter and misleading at the end of the twentieth century. These public discussions left most Americans with far more attitude than information about poverty, the poor, and poverty policy in the United States.\nIn response, Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie Solinger compiled the first documentary history of welfare in America, from its origins through the present. Welfare: A Documentary History of [url] Policy and Politics provides historical context for understanding recent polic.