Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195176014 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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. News and World Report. Sharon Hays is Barbra Streisand Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. The author of The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, she has been interviewed for publications such as The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Parenting, Working Mother Magazine, and U.S
These mixed messages, put forth via a rigid bureaucracy, pull welfare recipients and well-intentioned case workers in multiple directions. . Hayes's subjects tell stories of the extreme poverty, broken families, sexual abuse, homelessness, and the lengths to which they go in attempts to juggle multiple part-time low-paying jobs, but they do not portray themselves as victims. From Publishers Weekly While welfare reform in the mid-1990s meant new employees and equipment for some welfare offices and perks like interview clothing for some welfare recipients, it also meant harsh guidelines aimed at punishing welfare recipients who did not follow strict protocols. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. She finds that they are often pushed into dead-end employment with no c
A. said As a full-time welfare caseworker,. I am fluent in the federal rules and regulations of qualifying for and receiving welfare. I apply them every day. Because of this, I have a unique perspective from what I read in Sharon Hays' Flat Broke with Children. While I very much enjoyed reading this book, and I respect the viewpoints within it, I find several elementary issues with Hays' argument.Flat Broke with Children is an analysis of the welfare system of the United States; the focus of the book is the conservative welfare reform legislation passed in 1996 un. "A Must-read!" according to Chazz Sullivan. If you want to get a 1st-hand glimpse at real lives who face & battle poverty in America (namely women & children), take time to read this book. And once you do, continue your own research. There's too much political & ignorance rhetoric perpetuating the drummed up notion that poor citizens don't try to help themselves, their families nor this country. As it has been, the truth remains that the poorest of citizens work the most & yet gain the least in health benefits, social reform & living recognition. If you're a skept. Five Stars Thanks
Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2 million in 2003. Drawing on this hands-on research, Flat Broke With Children is the first book to explore the impact of welfare reform on motherhood, marriage, and work in women's lives, and the first book to offer us a portrait of how welfare reform plays out in thousands of local welfare offices and in millions of homes across the nation.. Welfare reform, experienced on the ground, is not a rosy picture. But what does this "success" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke With Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of welfare reform from inside the welfare office and inside the lives of welfare mothers, describing the challenges that welfare recipients face in managing their work, their families, and the rules and regulations of welfare reform. Hays devoted three years to visiting welfare clients and two welfare offices, one in a medium-sized town in the Southeast, another in a large, metropolitan