The Battle for Welfare Rights chronicles an American war on poverty fought first and foremost by poor people themselves. It tells the fascinating story of the N

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics. Rather than ask why the American state hasn't responded to unmet social welfare need

This book recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty.