Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ573486
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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Struggling to Survive: The Lives of Women and Children Under the New Welfare Law.
Polakow, Valerie; Kahn, Peggy; Martin, Nora
Journal for a Just and Caring Education, v4 n4 p374-92 Oct 1998
Documents the new federal welfare policies' effects on single mothers and their children living in poverty in Michigan, focusing on family health and viability, work requirements and sanctions, postsecondary education restrictions, and access to child care. Critically questions public educators' role and raises social policy issues related to savage inequalities confronting poor families. (40 references) (MLH)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Role, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Day Care, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Problems, Fatherless Family, Federal Legislation, Feminization of Poverty, Homeless People, Postsecondary Education, Poverty, Public Policy, Qualitative Research, Unwed Mothers, Welfare Services
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Michigan
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act
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