Gaining Ground in Illinois

by Dan A. Lewis

Book Overview

In 1997, then state Senator Barack Obama sponsored legislation in the Illinois General Assembly to study the newly passed federal welfare reform and how it would affect the citizens of Illinois. He believed that a sound piece of research assessing how the new law affected the poor of Illinois would give lawmakers a way to come together and improve the law and the lives of the poor. In the highly charged times of the 1990s when ideology often trumped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875806279
• ISBN13: 9780875806273
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher