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• catalog abstract "In this compelling look at the lives of welfare recipients, Mark Robert Rank shatters many of the myths commonly associated with the system and its participants. Living on the Edge considers three questions: Why do people turn to welfare? What is it like to survive on these programs? And what can we as a society do to address this critical issue? 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 chronicle of their day-to-day experiences reveals the many sacrifices and crises that tax ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Beginning with a history of welfare from Roosevelt to Clinton, he focuses on AFDC and the Food Stamp program. He then describes the backgrounds of the recipients, their hopes for the future and attitudes toward welfare, their daily routines and problems, their work behavior, and the effect of welfare on family dynamics. Living on the Edge reveals the experiences of female-headed families, married couples, single men and women, and the elderly. Interviews, extensive data, and Rank's firsthand observations of the welfare system puncture the stereotypes of assumed laziness and apathy. By concentrating on a wide range of individuals and families, Rank depicts a side of the welfare experience rarely seen and dispels the myth that only the urban underclass - the center of most policy debate - struggles on welfare. Rank's juxtaposition of numbers and faces alerts us to the fact that welfare recipients have much in common with the rest of us. His frank analysis allows us to see beyond the common biases to the fundamental constraints and forces in our society that push so many people to life on the edge.".
• catalog contributor b5792975.
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description "In this compelling look at the lives of welfare recipients, Mark Robert Rank shatters many of the myths commonly associated with the system and its participants. Living on the Edge considers three questions: Why do people turn to welfare? What is it like to survive on these programs? And what can we as a society do to address this critical issue? 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 chronicle of their day-to-day experiences reveals the many sacrifices and crises that tax ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Beginning with a history of welfare from Roosevelt to Clinton, he focuses on AFDC and the Food Stamp program. He then describes the backgrounds of the recipients, their hopes for the future and attitudes toward welfare, their daily routines and problems, their work behavior, and the effect of welfare on family dynamics. Living on the Edge reveals the experiences of female-headed families, married couples, single men and women, and the elderly. Interviews, extensive data, and Rank's firsthand observations of the welfare system puncture the stereotypes of assumed laziness and apathy. By concentrating on a wide range of individuals and families, Rank depicts a side of the welfare experience rarely seen and dispels the myth that only the urban underclass - the center of most policy debate - struggles on welfare. Rank's juxtaposition of numbers and faces alerts us to the fact that welfare recipients have much in common with the rest of us. His frank analysis allows us to see beyond the common biases to the fundamental constraints and forces in our society that push so many people to life on the edge.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-259) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction -- The welfare debate -- Getting on -- Day-to-day living -- Family dynamics -- Beliefs and hopes -- Working -- Attitudes about welfare -- How long and how often? -- Getting off -- Myths and realities -- Concluding thoughts -- Methodology -- Tables used to generate figures and odds ratios in text and supplementary tables.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 266 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0231084242 (cl)".
• catalog identifier "0231084250 (pa)".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "362.5/0973 20".
• catalog subject "HV 91 R198L 1994".
• catalog subject "HV91 .R36 1994".
• catalog subject "Poverty United States.".
• catalog subject "Public welfare United States.".
• catalog subject "Social Welfare United States Interview.".
• catalog subject "Social Welfare United States.".
• catalog subject "Welfare recipients United States Interviews.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- The welfare debate -- Getting on -- Day-to-day living -- Family dynamics -- Beliefs and hopes -- Working -- Attitudes about welfare -- How long and how often? -- Getting off -- Myths and realities -- Concluding thoughts -- Methodology -- Tables used to generate figures and odds ratios in text and supplementary tables.".
• catalog title "Living on the edge : the realities of welfare in America / Mark Robert Rank.".
• catalog type "Interviews. fast".
• catalog type "text".