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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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Social justice
Year: 2001, Volume: 28, Issue: 4, Pages: 33-48 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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