When Welfare Disappears: The Case for Economic Human Rights

While welfare rolls have dramatically dropped across the United States during the last decade, the high poverty rate for mothers and their children has not. Kenneth J. Neubeck's groundbreaking new book offers an incisive account of the current welfare system and a comprehensive explanation of how lone mother-headed families have been affected by welfare reform. As well, When Welfare Disappears places U.S. welfare policies in historical perspective and compares them to other industrialized nations' policies. What emerges is a novel argument for curtailing the end of welfare as we know it: the case for respecting economic human rights. Book jacket.

Kenneth J. Neubeck is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and co-author (with Noel A. Cazenave) of the award-winning Welfare Racism