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Welfare: A Documentary History Of U.S. Policy And Politics (3rd Edition) by Gwendolyn Mink (Editor), Rickie Solinger (Editor), Frances Fox Piven (Foreword) Paperback, 817 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-8147-5654-9 / 0814756549 ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-5654-6 / 9780814756546 Federal welfare policy has been a political and cultural preoccupation in the United States for nearly seven decades. Debates about who poor people are, how they got that way, and what the government should do about poverty were particularly bitter and misleading at the end of the twentieth century. |