The Human Cost of Welfare
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, and Appendices -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Welfare Reforms Need Reforming -- PART I The Welfare Conflict -- Chapter 1 What Does Work Have to Do with Happiness? -- Chapter 2 The War Between Welfare and Work -- PART II The Counter productive Qualifications for Welfare -- Chapter 3 What Counts as Poverty -- Chapter 4 Marriage, Childbearing, and Teen Pregnancy -- PART III Welfare Programs in Theory and in Fact -- Chapter 5 TANF: The Changing Face of Cash Assistance -- Chapter 6 A Housing System Leaves the Needy Out in the Cold -- Chapter 7 Who Gets Food Stamps? -- Chapter 8 WIC: Missteps with Women and Children -- Chapter 9 How We Disable the Disabled -- Chapter 10 Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act -- Chapter 11 The Earned Income Tax Credit: Welfare Done (Almost) Right -- PART IV Building Blocks for a Better Welfare System -- Chapter 12 Patterns of Dependence and Independence: American Indians on Reservations, Barterers, and Immigrants -- Chapter 13 What Should Be Done: From Incentives to Special Savings Accounts, Solutions Abound to Get Americans Back to Work -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.