Making work pay : America after welfare : a reader from The American prospect / edited by Robert Kuttner.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kuttner, Robert
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press, [2002], ©2002.
Subjects:
Public welfare > Economic aspects > United States.
Welfare recipients > United States > Economic conditions.
Physical Description:xvii, 220 pages ; 21 cm
Variant Title:
America after welfare.
Other Uniform Title:American prospect.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : Working principles from ending welfare to rewarding work / Robert B. Reich
  • A cleah sweep : the SEIU's organizing drive for janitors shows how unionization can raise wages / Harold Meyerson
  • Ending poverty as we know it / Michael Massing
  • Holding out / Joshua Green
  • Vermont : the greening of welfare / Jon Margolis
  • The welfare shell game / Joshua Green
  • Tough sanctions, tough luck / Joshua Green
  • How welfare offices undermine welfare reform : the fine art of dissuading people from collecting benefits / Marcia K. Meyers
  • Leave no child behind? The inconsistent, inefficient, and unfair way we support - and fail to support - our kids / Nancy Folbre
  • Child's play : why universal, high-quality day care should be elementary / Jonathan Cohn
  • Support for working families : what we can learn from Europe about family policies / Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers
  • Martha Jernegons's new shoes : the contribution of local living-wage ordinances / David Moberg
  • Ladders to a better life : the role of career-ladder strategies in making work pay / Joan Fitzgerald and Virginia Carlson
  • The other gender gap : why women still fail to receive comparable wages for comparable work / Naomi Barko
  • Two cheers for the earned income tax credit : it's great, but no substitute for decent wages / Jared Bernstein
  • Welfare that works : the case for more generous formulas to reward paid work / Gordon L. Berlin
  • Skills and the wage collapse : better education and training are only half the story / David Howell
  • Reforming welfare reform : what reform wrought, and what must be done now / Jared Bernstein and Mark Greenberg.