U.S. national debate topic 2009-2010 : social services for the poor /
Social services for the poor
edited by Margaret Roush.
- New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 2009.
- ix, 185 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- The reference shelf ; v. 81, no. 3 .
- Reference shelf ; v. 81, no. 3. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-174) and index.
other America / changing face of poverty in America / Poverty Row / Poverty is back! / We don't need another war on poverty / How welfare reform worked / Using carrots and sticks / Is welfare working? / Unfinished business / Welfare aid isn't growing as economy drops off / Reforming Medicaid / Something of value / SCHIP and beyond / immoral philosophy / Sleepwalking toward DD-Day / Boost for SCHIP / Hungry in America / Reflections on the Food Stamp Program / Food stamps and obesity / Food stamps -- Hunger hysteria / 2008 Farm Act makes it easier for food assistance households to save / Improving food choices : can food stamps do more? / Balancing nutrition, participation, and cost in the National School Lunch Program / Are shelters the answer to family homelessness? / As program moves poor to suburbs, tensions follow / Disability cases last longer as backlog rises / Embracing the exiles -- Starting right / For Head Start, a marathon run / Jonathan Alter -- William E. Spriggs -- Jeffrey M. Jones -- Ezra Klein -- Stephen Malanga -- Kay S. Hymowitz -- Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill -- Jonathan Walters -- Thomas Massaro -- Jason DeParle -- John C. Goodman and Devon M. Herrick -- Gary Enos -- Jonathan Walters -- Paul Krugman -- George F. Will -- Jennifer Lubell -- Trudy Lieberman -- Bonny O'Neil -- Michele Ver Ploeg and Katherine Ralston -- Robert Rector -- Margaret Andrews -- Joanne F. Guthrie, et al. -- Constance Newman, Katherine Ralston, and Annette Clauson -- Ralph da Costa Nunez and Laura M. Caruso -- Solomon Moore -- Erik Eckholm -- Joan Lombardi -- Linda Jacobson and Daniel Sheehan. The The An