| Description |
1 online resource (x, 272 pages) |
| Contents |
Reforming welfare with family caps -- New Jersey : birthplace of the family cap -- Family caps and nonmarital births -- Experimenting with a family cap -- Rushing to judgment about the family cap -- Trying to study the family cap -- Questioning the family cap evidence -- Testing family cap theory -- Sauntering toward reauthorization |
| Summary |
Fifteen years ago, New Jersey became the first of over twenty states to introduce the family cap, a welfare reform policy that reduces or eliminates cash benefits for unmarried women on public assistance who become pregnant. The caps have lowered extra-marital birth rates, as intended but as Michael J. Camasso shows convincingly in this provocative book, they did so in a manner that few of the policys architects are willing to acknowledge publicly, namely by increasing the abortion rate disproportionately among black and Hispanic women. In Family Caps, Abortion, and Women of Color, Camasso (who headed up the evaluation of the nations first cap) presents the caps history from inception through implementation to his investigation and the dramatic attempts to squelch his unpleasant findings. The book is filled with devastatingly clear-cut evidence and hard-nosed data analyses, yet Camasso also pays close attention to the reactions his findings provoked in policymakers, both conservative and liberal, who were unprepared for the effects of their crude social engineering and did not want their success scrutinized too closely |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Welfare recipients -- Government policy -- United States
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Family size -- Government policy -- United States
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Low-income single mothers -- Government policy -- United States
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Public welfare -- United States.
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Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Abortion -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
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Abortion
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Family size -- Government policy
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Public welfare
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Public welfare -- Law and legislation
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Welfare recipients -- Government policy
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0198039816 |
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9780198039815 |
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9780199864546 |
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0199864543 |
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1281156752 |
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9781281156754 |
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