Mary Jo Bane and David T. Ellwood examine the welfare system - its recipients, its providers and the many policy ideas surrounding it. Focusing on the AFDC Prog

Based on ten years of research, the book follows individuals and families as they apply for and live on public aid and eventually leave the system. Rank's chron

This book sets the record straight about the nation's welfare programs, showing that the gloom and doom surrounding public discussion stem from false ideas abou

The authors convincingly rebuff the 20-year assault on the United States welfare state, launched by the left and the right. They argue that America's "insurance

This assessment of the threat posed to modern welfare states by globalization and demographic change brings together empirical methods, current information from