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Cover 1 Series Page, Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 Introduction 8 Preface to the Lectures 18 Lecture I: Guess Who Likes Workfare 24 Lecture II: Guess Who Pays for Workfare 44 Comment 66 Comment 76 Comment 84 Comment 98 Response to Comments 106 Contributors 116 Index 118 Publisher:Princeton University Press,Published:2009,ISBN:9781400822645,Related ISBN:9780691058832,Language:English,OCLC:228043183 The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President Clinton for confronting welfare recipients with an unworkable choice--finding work in the current labor market or losing benefits. He argues that the only practical and fair way to move recipients to work is, in contrast, through an ambitious plan to guarantee that every able-bodied citizen has access to a job. Solow contends that the demand implicit in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act for welfare recipients to find work in the existing labor market has two crucial flaws. First, the labor market wou

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Author
Gutmann, Amy;Solow, Robert M
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9781400822645
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Economics, Social Science, Business
Rating
4.17 / 5 (6 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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