The Collapse of Welfare Reform

Download or read book The Collapse of Welfare Reform written by Christopher Leman and published by Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collapse of Welfare Reformexamines and compares a decade of welfare reform policy efforts in the United States and Canada, explaining the failure of each. While many scholars attribute differences in welfare policy to socioeconomic factors, Leman contends that political factors were responsible for these differences in the two countries under study. His is the only detailed and comparative recent work on public assistance policy and is one of the few book-length comparisons of the United States and Canada on any subject. It updates past discussions of U.S. welfare reform by discussing President Carter's Program for Better Jobs and Income as well as former President Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, and provides the most comprehensive account available of the Canadian Social Security Review and its aftermath. The issues, data, and lessons presented in this book will interest political scientists, social workers, policy planners, and general readers who are involved in welfare assistance programs and issues.