Welfare
This welfare program replaced AFDC
TANF
This former president really f*cked sh*t up it is still embarrassing for him I think
Who is Ronald Reagan :(
The individual who Regulating the Poor is dedicated to
The book is dedicated to the welfare protest movement that arose in the 1960s and to its leader, George A. Wiley.
This is the core mission of the "workfare state" is mentioned in Chapter Three in Wacquant's text
The core mission of the "workfare state" is the regulation of wage work
This indicator is typically used to determine how successful a welfare program is, despite it not being a very effective measurement.
Decreased enrollment
Two long term consequences of mass incarceration among individuals, families, and communities
reduces individuals' lifelong prospects for employment and earnings
stigma of a felony record
destabilizes families and communities
Piven and Cloward's stated purpose in writing Regulating the Poor
What is to demonstrate how social welfare serves to regulate the behavior and political and economic position of the poor
According to the prologue, this is what Wacquant considers America to be in relation to the neoliberal future.
What is a living laboratory of the neoliberal future?
This state is where the research for "Disciplining the Poor" by Soss et al. began
Florida
Two of the policy choices states made regarding TANF after 1996 (Soss et al.)
Imposing lifetime limits on benefit recipients
Implementing a family cap that denied additional benefits for children conceived by welfare recipients
Choosing the type of sanction procedures, such as full-family sanctions versus partial benefit sanctions
Determining the rigidity of work requirements by creating categories of temporary exemptions
Establishing restrictive eligibility standards
Two examples of "paternalist strategies" for pushing the poor to make "better choices" that emerged in the early 1990s
Emphasis on stringent work requirements and sanctions for noncompliance
Wisconsin's "Learnfare" program
Maryland Governor William Schaefer's proposal
etc.
What term does Soss et al. use to describe the contemporary approach to poverty governance
Neoliberal paternalism
These are the two main policy areas that Wacquant's book seeks to connect and analyze.
The book connects and analyzes restrictive "workfare" and expansive "prisonfare"
According to the introductory chapter in Wacquant's text, this is one of the major political transformations of the past half-century that has gone virtually unnoticed by sociologists and political scientists
The rupture of the "social state" in America
Leading theorist of paternalism, this professor of political science at New York University was cited by Soss et al. repeatedly in their book as an advocate for neoliberal welfare reform
Lawrence Mead