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100	1		_aGilbert, Neil.
245	1	0	_aUS welfare reform _h[electronic resource] : _bRewriting the social contract / _cNeil Gilbert.
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520			_aThis paper analyses recent developments in US welfare policy and their implications for future reforms. The analysis begins by examining how the enactment of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programme in 1996 changed the essential character of public assistance and the major social forces that accounted for this fundamental shift in US welfare policy. It then shows how the most recent welfare reforms under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 broadened and intensified the TANF requirements, leaving four avenues along which issues of conditionality and entitlement are likely to be played out in future welfare reforms. Finally, the discussion highlights how a new social contract is being forged through progressive and conservative proposals, which shift the focus of public assistance from the right to financial support to the right to work and earn a living wage.
538			_aMode of access: Internet.
773	0		_tJournal of Social Policy _g2009, Vol. 38, Issue 3 _x1469-7823
856			_uhttps://ezproxy01.ny.edu.hk:2078/10.1017/S0047279409003043 _zClick here to access full-text article
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