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<p>When the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act became law in 1996, the architects of welfare reform celebrated what they called the new "consensus" on welfare: that cash assistance should be temporary and contingent on recipients' seeking and finding employment. However, assessments about the assumptions and consequences of this radical change to the nation's social safety net were actually far more varied and disputed than the label "consensus" suggests.</p> <p>By e
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- Author
- Sandra L. Morgen; Joan Acker; Jill Weigt
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801447747
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, Social Work
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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