Work First and Forget About Education: New York City's Personal Responsibility Act and the Creation of a Working Underclass

Although the New York City Personal Responsibility Act states its intention is to transfer New Yorkers from welfare to self-sufficiency, its real objective is to reduce the welfare rolls, regardless of how that is achieved. Its Work Experience Program (WEP) is not devised to prepare participants for...

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1. VerfasserIn: Brown, Delores D. Jones (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Mahoney, Jacqueline
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2001
In: Social justice
Jahr: 2001, Band: 28, Heft: 4, Seiten: 33-48
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