Postindustrial Welfare Policy: Just Say No to Women and Children

Sanford F. Schram
Additional contact information
Sanford F. Schram: Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul MN 55105

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1994, vol. 26, issue 1, 56-84

Abstract: Recent changes in welfare policy underscore the continuation of persistent parallel tendencies to promote work by devaluing welfare and privilege the two-parent family over female-headed families. In this way, policy is integrally involved in perpetuating the problems it ostensibly is supposed to be attacking. Both conservatives and liberals have helped to promote this line of policymaking in ways which further threaten the well-being of poor women with children. In the current period, the decline in adequate paying jobs, the deterioration of needed services, and the decrease in the value of public assistance benefits force poor families to rely more than previously on an uneven, unreliable and inadequate system of privatized assistance. These practices are likely to continue the bias in favor of the two-parent family as the route out of poverty and are just as likely to accelerate the trend toward the "femininization of poverty."

Date: 1994
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://rrp.sagepub.com/content/26/1/56.abstract (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:26:y:1994:i:1:p:56-84

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Review of Radical Political Economics from Union for Radical Political Economics
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().