Making Work Pay : America after Welfare

ISBN 10: 1565846958 / ISBN 13: 9781565846951

Published by New Press, The, 2002

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Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Work Pay : America after Welfare
• Publisher: New Press, The
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565846958
• ISBN 13: 9781565846951
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.626 pounds

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Synopsis

In the four years since Congress acted to "end welfare as we know it", millions of people have been forced out of government assistance programs into low-wage, dead-end jobs with few, if any, benefits. Making Work Pay brings together the foremost thinkers in the fields of social policy and public affairs to examine the effects of the new national prosperity on the working poor -- to ask what happened to the second half of President Bill Clinton's welfare reform, which was supposed to "make work pay".

As Robert Reich notes in his introduction, "like other ideas that have had the misfortune of becoming political slogans, 'making work pay' went from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence". This book, which originated as a special double issue of The American Prospect magazine, brings coherence to the original notion, and updates it for a new century. In Making Work Pay, leading policy analysts and journalists examine the broad fallout of welfare reform: Marcia Meyers shows how welfare offices undermine welfare reform; Naomi Barko reveals how the gender gap in wages hits low-income workers hardest; Harold Meyerson describes the growing movement to organize low-wage workers; and Michael Massing details welfare-to-work programs that actually work.

Arriving as Congress considers the reauthorization of welfare reform, and including reports of state programs, Making Work Pay is a timely contribution to a pressing debate.

About the Author

Robert Kuttner is cofounder and coeditor of The American Prospect. He is the author of five books, including Everything for Sale, and lives near Boston. Former Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich (introduction) is cofounder and national editor of The American Prospect and author of Locked in the Cabinet. He is the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University.