Title: Hands to Work: The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare Clock
Publisher: William Morrow
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0688173888
ISBN 13: 9780688173883
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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By sharing the stories of three families who are learning the new rules and regulations of welfare, the author presents a thought-provoking examination of the welfare laws, policies, and reforms of the last decade, simplifying the modern conceptions of poverty and revealing how welfare policy and reform have been conceived.

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LynNell Hancock is an assistant professor at the Columbia School of journalism, where she served as director of the Prudential Fellowship for Children and the News, a program dedicated to improving media coverage of children's issues. She has been a writer and editor at Newsweek, the New York Daily News, and the Village Voice, and now contributes to US. News & World Report and Parenting. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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