In many respects, the United States remains a nation of immigrants. This is the first book length treatment of the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on a wi
Congress must reauthorize the sweeping 1996 welfare reform legislation by October 1, 2002. A number of issues that were prominent in the 1995-96 battle over wel
Find out how—and why—legislation has made economic rights more important than human rights Since 1996, politicians and public officials in the United States
Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal progra
The lore of the immigrant who comes to the United States to take advantage of our welfare system has a long history in America's collective mythology, but it ha