They Say Cutback, We Say Fight Back!: Welfare Activism in an Era of Retrenchment by Ellen Reese

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They Say Cutback, We Say Fight Back!: Welfare Activism in an Era of Retrenchment

Ellen Reese

312 pages paperback

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In 1996, President Bill Clinton hailed the "end of welfare as we know it" when he signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. The law effectively transformed the nation's welfare system from an entitlement to a work-based one, ins...

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