Living on the Edge Mark Robert Rank

Name: Living on the Edge By Mark Robert Rank
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Living on the Edge by Mark Robert Rank

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This acclaimed book powerfully depicts a side of the welfare experience rarely seen, dispelling the myth that only an urban underclass -- the center of most policy debate -- struggles on welfare. Rank's juxtaposition of numbers and faces demonstrates that welfare recipients share much in common with the rest of the population.

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Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America by Mark Robert Rank

This acclaimed book powerfully depicts a side of the welfare experience rarely seen, dispelling the myth that only an urban underclass-the center of most policy debate-struggles on welfare. Rank's juxtaposition of numbers and faces demonstrates that welfare recipients share much in common with the rest of the population.

Living on the Edge Reviews

Rank analyzes the several ways of interpreting poverty and the need for welfare, and provides an account of his research on what poor people actually do to make ends meet and how they think about it... Perhaps most poignant is that many of the people Rank spoke with work hard only to lose ground, yet maintain a strong belief in upward mobility and the American dream. New York Times After ten years of intensive study of public welfare programs and welfare recipients, Mark Robert Rank has written a thoughtful book about poor people and their lives... Rank argues that we have got it just about backward again. It turns out, he says, that a lot of assumptions about welfare are simply wrong. Chicago Tribune

About Mark Robert Rank

Mark Robert Rank is a sociologist and associate professor in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University, Saint Louis.

Additional information

Sku

GOR012810338

ISBN 13

9780231084246

ISBN 10

0231084242

Title

Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America by Mark Robert Rank

Author

Mark Robert Rank

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Year published

1994-04-07

Number of pages

266

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N/A

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Note

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