Flat broke with children

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"In Flat Broke With Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of welfare reform from inside the welfare office and inside the lives of welfare mothers, describing the challenges that welfare recipients face in managing their work, their families, and the rules and regulations of welfare reform." "Hays devoted three years to visiting welfare clients and two welfare offices, one in a medium-sized town in the Southeast, another in a large, metropolitan area in the West. Drawing on this hands-on research, Flat Broke With Children is the first book to explore the impact of recent welfare reform on motherhood, marriage, and work in women's lives, and the first book to offer us a portrait of how welfare reform plays out in thousands of local welfare offices and in millions of homes across the nation."--Jacket.

subjects: Low-income single mothers,  Mothers,  Poor women,  Public welfare,  United States,  Welfare recipients,  Poverty,  Women,  Bénéficiaires,  Kind,  Aide sociale,  Mères de famille monoparentale pauvres,  États-Unis,  Sozialhilfe,  Frau,  Femmes pauvres,  Armut,  Mères,  Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (United States),  Public welfare, united states

Places: United States