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Author Hershkoff, Helen, 1953- author.

Title Getting by : economic rights and legal protections for people with low income / Helen Hershkoff and Stephen Loffredo
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford monographs in international humanitarian and criminal law
Oxford monographs in international humanitarian and criminal law.
Contents Introduction -- Cash assistance -- Work-related benefits and employment protections -- Food assistance -- Health -- Education -- Consumer rights and credit protection -- Housing -- Rights in public spaces -- Access to justice : enforcing rights and securing protection -- The right to vote
Summary Over the last generation, inequality has risen, wages have fallen, and confidence that children will have a better future is at an all-time low. To be sure, a new generation is speaking up in support of universal health care, better public schools, affordable housing, and livable wages. But until the United States adopts and adheres to policies that ensure dignity and decency for all, people need to get by. This book addresses that imperative. 'Getting By' offers an integrated, critical account of the programs, rights, and legal protections that most directly affect poor and low-income people in the United States, whether they are unemployed, underemployed, or employed, and whether they work within the home or outside the home
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 8, 2019)
Subject Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Miscellanea
Poor -- Civil rights -- United States -- Miscellanea
Poor -- Civil rights
Public welfare -- Law and legislation
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
Law.
United States
Genre/Form miscellanies.
Trivia and miscellanea
Trivia and miscellanea.
Miscellanées.
Form Electronic book
Author Loffredo, Stephen, 1955- author.
ISBN 9780199364763
0199364761
9780190080860
0190080868
9780199938513
0199938512
9780199974931
0199974934
Other Titles Rights of the poor