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Synopsis
In this book Joel Handler, a national expert on welfare, points out the fallacies in the current proposals for welfare reform, arguing that they merely recycle old remedies that have not worked. He analyzes the prejudice that has historically existed against "the undeserving poor" and shows that the stereotype of the inner-city woman of color who has children in order to stay on welfare is untrue. Most welfare mothers are in the labor market, says Handler; however, the work that is available to them is most often low-wage, part-time employment with no benefits. Efforts to move large numbers of welfare recipients to full-time employment are not likely to be successful, especially since most of the welfare programs for single mothers are at the state and local levels, and these governments are reluctant to spend the extra money needed to institute work or other reform programs. Handler suggests that national reform efforts should focus less on welfare and blaming the victim and more on increasing labor markets and reducing poverty through legislation that promotes, for example, the Earned Income Tax Credit and universal health care benefits. Welfare reform, by itself, does nothing to improve the job market, and unless there are more jobs paying more income, we will have done nothing to lessen poverty or reduce welfare.
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About the Author
Joel F. Handler is Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles.
From Publishers Weekly
With Newt, Bob, Bill, Phil and just about everybody else fretting over the welfare system and the money it costs and the work ethic it undermines and the moral turpitude it encourages, UCLA law professor Handler provides a more sober consideration. He refutes a number of myths: that welfare drains the public coffers; that welfare recipients don't want to work (many do work to supplement payments that are below the poverty line); that, once on welfare, people are perpetually on welfare. Not all of Handler's assertions are convincing, as when he notes that "nonwelfare mothers work by choice and can choose to be man-dependent," adding just three pages later that "most two-parent families have been able to maintain their relative position only if both parents work." His most helpful contribution is to re-orient the discussion away from the current deprecation of welfare recipients. This he does in part by recalling the long historical division between the deserving and undeserving poor (the Roosevelt administration fought hard to exclude the poor aged from Social Security to protect the program from the stigma of welfare) and by providing very brief overview of programs like Earned Income Tax Credit, health care, minimum-wage increases and child support that attack poverty, not the poor.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0300064802
- ISBN 13 9780300064803
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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