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This acclaimed book powerfully depicts a side of the welfare experience rarely seen, dispelling the myth that only an urban underclass—the center of most policy debate—struggles on welfare. Rank's juxtaposition of numbers and faces demonstrates that welfare recipients share much in common with the rest of the population.
Price: $120.00
Pages: 266
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
07 April 1994
ISBN: 9780231084246
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services
Rank analyzes the several ways of interpreting poverty and the need for welfare, and provides an account of his research on what poor people actually do to make ends meet and how they think about it.... Perhaps most poignant is that many of the people Rank spoke with work hard only to lose ground, yet maintain a strong belief in upward mobility and the American dream.
Mark Robert Rank is a sociologist and associate professor in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University, Saint Louis.