Faces of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children on Welfare
Mar 1997 · Oxford University Press
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. Most Americans are insulated from the poor; it's hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of crime and victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child. Instead, we are often exposed to the rhetoric and hyperbole about the excesses of the American welfare system. These messages color our perception of the welfare problem in the United States and they close the American mind to a full understanding of the complexity of family poverty. But who are these poor families? What do we know about how they arrived in such desperate straits? Is poverty their fate for a lifetime or for only a brief period? In Faces of Poverty, Jill Duerr Berrick answers these questions as she dispels the misconceptions and myths about welfare and the welfare population that hav
This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. Most Americans are insulated from the poor; it's hard to imagine the challenges of povert...
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Jill Duerr Berrick is the Director of the Center for Social Services Research and the Child Welfare Research Center at the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley. She has conducted numerous studies of children and families and has published her findings in several books and articles.
Jill Duerr Berrick is the Director of the Center for Social Services Research and the Child Welfare Research Center at the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley. She has conducted numerous studies of children and families and has published her findings in several books and ...
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