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With the enactment of the Family Support Act of 1988, every state
is now required to implement a workfare program. Workfare is
designed to supplement and ultimately replace welfare with job
training programs. Nathan examines the roles of job training, job
placement, education, and child care services as a route to
transforming welfare payment programs into systems that stress jobs
and services for welfare families.
Cities, counties, school districts and other local governments have
suffered a long-lasting period of fiscal challenges since the
beginning of the Great Recession. Metropolitan governments continue
to adjust to the "new normal" of sharply lower property values,
consumer sales, and personal income. Contributors to this volume
include elected officials, academics, key people in city
administrations, and other nationally recognized experts who
discuss solutions to the urban problems created by the Great
Recession. Metropolitan Resilience in a Time of Economic Turmoil
looks at the capacity of local governments to mobilize resources
efficiently and effectively, as well as the overall effects of the
long-term economic downturn on quality of life. Introducing the
reader to the fiscal effects of the Great Recession on cities, the
book examines the initial fraying and subsequent mending of the
social safety net, the opportunities for pursuing economic
development strategies, the challenges of inter-jurisdictional
cooperation, and the legacy costs of pension liabilities and
infrastructure decay. Contributors are Phil Ashton, Raphael Bostic,
Richard Feiock, Rachel A. Gordon, Rebecca Hendrick, Geoffrey J.D.
Hewings, David Merriman, Richard Nathan, Michael A. Pagano, Breeze
Richardson, Annette Steinacker, Nik Theodore, Rachel Weber, and
Margaret Weir.
While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and
practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to
incorporate them into the "global" repertoire, few are aware of the
central role of religious belief and practice in Indian aesthetics.
Completing the trilogy that includes Darsan: Seeing the Divine and
Mantra: Hearing the Divine in India and America, this volume
focuses on how rasa has been applied in a range of Indian
performance traditions."Rasa" is taste, essence, flavor. How is it
possible that a word used to describe a delicious masala can also
be used to critique a Bharata Natyam performance? Rasa expresses
the primary goals of performing arts in India in all the major
literary, philosophical, and aesthetic texts, and it provides the
cornerstone of the oral traditions of transmission. It is also
essential to the study and production of sculpture, architecture,
and painting. Yet its primary referent is cuisine. This book
articulates the religious sensibility underlying the traditional
performing arts as well as other applications of rasa and examines
the relationships between the arts and religion in India today.
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