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Living on the Edge - The Realities of Welfare in America (Hardcover, New)
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Living on the Edge - The Realities of Welfare in America (Hardcover, New)
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In this compelling look at the lives of welfare recipients, Mark
Robert Rank shatters many of the myths commonly associated with the
system and its participants. Living on the Edge considers three
questions: Why do people turn to welfare? What is it like to
survive on these programs? And what can we as a society do to
address this critical issue? Based on ten years of research, the
book follows individuals and families as they apply for and live on
public aid and eventually leave the system. Rank's chronicle of
their day-to-day experiences reveals the many sacrifices and crises
that tax ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Beginning with a
history of welfare from Roosevelt to Clinton, he focuses on AFDC
and the Food Stamp program. He then describes the backgrounds of
the recipients, their hopes for the future and attitudes toward
welfare, their daily routines and problems, their work behavior,
and the effect of welfare on family dynamics. Living on the Edge
reveals the experiences of female-headed families, married couples,
single men and women, and the elderly. Interviews, extensive data,
and Rank's firsthand observations of the welfare system puncture
the stereotypes of assumed laziness and apathy. By concentrating on
a wide range of individuals and families, Rank depicts a side of
the welfare experience rarely seen and dispels the myth that only
the urban underclass - the center of most policy debate - struggles
on welfare. Rank's juxtaposition of numbers and faces alerts us to
the fact that welfare recipients have much in common with the rest
of us. His frank analysis allows us to see beyond the common biases
to the fundamental constraints and forces in our society that push
somany people to life on the edge.
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