Work and Welfare.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | University Center for Human Values series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President Clinton for confronting welfare recipients with an unworkable choice--finding work in the current labor market or losing benefits. He argues that the only practical and fair way to move recipients to work is, in contrast, through an ambitious plan to guarantee that every able-bodied citizen has access to. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (121 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400822645 1400822645 0691058830 9780691058832 1400807557 9781400807550 |
