The Attitude of AFDC (Welfare) Recipients Towards Work

Welfare reform was based heavily on the notion that the poor simply did not have good work values. In this study Wynn finds the null: that welfare recipients have very positive attitudes towards work, but lack opportunities. Poverty can be thought of as structural, for as long as jobs exist which...

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Main Author: Lyndelia Burch Wynn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: North Carolina Sociological Association 2003-10-01
Series:Sociation Today
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Online Access:http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v2/wynn.htm