Trapped in America's safety net one family's struggle
When the author's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was left paralyzed from the chest down. Like so many Americans, neither Marcella nor her husband, Dave, had health insurance. Using Marcella and Dave's situation as a case in point, the a...
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University of Chicago Press
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Trying to make it in America
- Down the rabbit hole
- The place of the poor in the American welfare state
- How means-tested programs keep people poor
- The fifty worlds of social assistance
- Conclusion : the future of American means-tested programs.