From Welfare to Work (Solutions From America)
From Welfare to Work (Solutions From America)

Summary/Abstract: The debate about poverty is a debate about unemployment. In the EU countries and in the USA, poverty has little connection to low wages in general. Non-work and even low working hours are a more important cause of poverty than low wages. The widely accepted explanations for this non-work-lack of childcare, poor job skills, the decline of heavy industry- are only partially convincing. The main reason for non-work is that poor people have sunk into a culture of poverty. They have stopped even expecting to work. The idea that the poor must be required to work, not just offered the chance to, has emerged in American Social policy because of the nature of the poverty problem and of the failure to solve it on voluntary basis (Lawrence MEAD, 1997).

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