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Pub Date
2001
ISBN
9780945257837
Page Count
518

Washington’s New Poor Law: Welfare Reform and the Roads Not Taken, 1935-Present

By Sheila D Collins

Apex Press

The authors argue that the personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, popularly known as welfare “reform”, offers neither work opportunity nor real reform. In repealing the entitlement to welfare and failing to create an entitlement to work – at the same time as it imposes strict, time-limited work requirements – Washington has, in effect, written a new Poor Law.