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This new edition of American Poverty in a New Era of Reform provides a comprehensive examination of the extent, causes, effects, and costs of American poverty nearly ten years after the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996. The author includes the most current available demographic, budget, evaluation, and program data to evaluate the impact of this sweeping legislation on federal and state policies, as well as on poverty populations. This revised edition takes into account the economic slowdown that took place in 2001 through 2003. It examines the state decisions about how to implement PRWORA, and how changes have affected the poverty population and overall welfare system. The author identifies the positive implications of welfare reform along with problems that must be addressed. New features for this edition include an appendix of Internet sources a state-by-state tables of poverty rates.
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The U.S. poverty rate today is about 13.3 percent. This modest statistic translates to some 35 million people -- greater than the total population of California, almost twice the population of Texas.
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Clearly, American society has a stake in assisting as many of the poor as possible to become self-reliant, secure, and economically productive. This was the goal of the most comprehensive major public policy change in recent American history, the welfare reform plan enacted in August 1996.
In this book Harrell Rodgers offers a carefully documented assessment of poverty in America and the initial impacts of welfare reform -- which, fortunately, has been implemented during a period of economic expansion and low unemployment. He also underscores the importance of backing up welfare reform with policies that support families' efforts to make genuine, sustainable, long-term improvements in their lives and the prospects of their children.
Rodgers (political science, Univ. of Houston), the well-regarded author of a multitude of writings on poverty and social welfare programs, examines results of the welfare reform plan that was enacted in 1996. He considers every aspect of welfare reform in a clear, concise, and well-documented manner, examining income and expenditure data broken down by age group, sex, educational level, number of children, marital status, and specific location. He imparts the good news that not only does welfare reform appear to be working to reduce welfare rolls but across the boards each state has seen a more rapid decline than anticipated. However, he validly cautions that this phenomenon is still far from understood as too little is known about what has happened to the people who are no longer on welfare. He maintains that the bigger question is not whether we can make welfare reform work, but whether we can eliminate poverty. Though he remains skeptical about eliminating poverty, he posits that it may be more realistic to approach improvements to poverty by degrees. Recommended for sociology collections in academic and large public libraries.DSandra Isaacson, US EPA/OAO Corp., Las Vegas, NV
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