Work and Welfare

by Robert Solow

Book Overview

The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President Clinton for confronting welfare recipients with an unworkable choice--finding work in the current labor market or losing benefits. He argues that the only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691058830
• ISBN13: 9780691058832
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.7"