The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America

by Marisa Chappell

Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan Revolution--and not necessarily by the Right.

The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America traces what Bill Clinton...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812242041
• ISBN13: 9780812242041
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"