Welfare Reform: Failure & Remedies

by Alvin L. Schorr

Book Overview

Schorr provides an informed examination of the sources of welfare reform, its successes and considerable failures, and the economic and social forces that shaped the 1996 welfare reform. He summarizes developments in the history of welfare that led to an overwhelming public call for reform. Having participated in many of these developments as a high government official and as a policy practitioner, Schorr brings a unique perspective to these issues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275970655
• ISBN13: 9780275970659
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"