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Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts
responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane
Katrina. In this study, the authors use extensive interviews with
Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers to identify
what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of
hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas. Drawing on
social capital and social network theory, the authors assess the
complementary, and often conflicting, roles of FEMA, other
governmental agencies and a range of non-governmental organizations
in addressing survivors' short- and longer-term needs. While these
organizations came together to assist with immediate emergency
needs, even collectively they could not deal with survivors'
long-term needs for employment, affordable housing and personal
records necessary to rebuild lives. Community Lost provides
empirical evidence that civil society organizations cannot
substitute for an efficient and benevolent state, which is
necessary for society to function.
Alex Smith was a carefree young woman enjoying life in New York
City when her world turned upside down after a vampire attack.
Forced to forget everything she once knew and believed, the young
woman embarks on a journey that leaves friends dead, and criminals
in jail. Refusing to turn a blind eye to the evil that lurks within
the city, she becomes a new kind of hero.
Alex Smith was a carefree young woman enjoying life in New York
City when her world turned upside down after a vampire attack.
Forced to forget everything she once knew and believed, the young
woman embarks on a journey that leaves friends dead, and criminals
in jail. Refusing to turn a blind eye to the evil that lurks within
the city, she becomes a new kind of hero.
In the decade since President Clinton signed the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 into
law--amidst promises that it would "end welfare as we know
it"--have the reforms ending entitlements and moving toward time
limits and work requirements lifted Texas families once living on
welfare out of poverty, or merely stricken their names from the
administrative rolls?
Under welfare reform, Texas has continued with low monthly
payments and demanding eligibility criteria. Many families who
could receive welfare in other states do not qualify in Texas, and
virtually any part-time job makes a family ineligible. In Texas,
most families who leave welfare remain in or near poverty, and many
are likely to return to the welfare rolls in the future.
This compelling work, which follows 179 families after leaving
welfare, is set against a backdrop of multiple types of data and
econometric modeling. The authors' multi-method approach draws on
administrative data from nine programs serving low-income families
and a statewide survey of families who have left welfare. Survey
data on health problems, transportation needs, and child-care
issues shed light on the patterns of employment and welfare use
seen in the administrative data. In their lives after welfare, the
families chronicled here experience poverty even when employed; a
multiplicity of barriers to employment that work to exacerbate one
another; and a failing safety net of basic human services as they
attempt to sustain low-wage employment.
Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts
responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane
Katrina. In this study, the authors use extensive interviews with
Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers to identify
what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of
hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas. Drawing on
social capital and social network theory, the authors assess the
complementary, and often conflicting, roles of FEMA, other
governmental agencies and a range of non-governmental organizations
in addressing survivors' short- and longer-term needs. While these
organizations came together to assist with immediate emergency
needs, even collectively they could not deal with survivors'
long-term needs for employment, affordable housing and personal
records necessary to rebuild lives. Community Lost provides
empirical evidence that civil society organizations cannot
substitute for an efficient and benevolent state, which is
necessary for society to function.
Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the
implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance
system in the United States for the health care access of
low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs
do not provide health insurance or other benefits and although
government programs are available for children, adults without
private health care coverage have few options. Detailed
ethnographic and survey data from selected low-income neighborhoods
in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio document the lapses in medical
coverage that poor families experience and reveal the extent of
untreated medical conditions, delayed treatment, medical
indebtedness, and irregular health care that women and children
suffer as a result. Extensive poverty, the increasing proportion of
minority households, and the growing dependence on insecure service
sector work all influence access to health care for families at the
economic margin.
Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the
implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance
system in the United States for the health care access of
low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs
do not provide health insurance or other benefits and although
government programs are available for children, adults without
private health care coverage have few options. Detailed
ethnographic and survey data from selected low-income neighborhoods
in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio document the lapses in medical
coverage that poor families experience and reveal the extent of
untreated medical conditions, delayed treatment, medical
indebtedness, and irregular health care that women and children
suffer as a result. Extensive poverty, the increasing proportion of
minority households, and the growing dependence on insecure service
sector work all influence access to health care for families at the
economic margin.
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