This article highlights the scope of cash welfare as a poverty program and the policy context
that led to the legislative distinctions between pre-and post-1996. Trends in welfare …

This article develops a framework for analyzing the risks of poverty in terms of prevalences
(share of the population with a risk) and penalties (increased probability of poverty …

With the dramatic rise in the US Hispanic population, scholars have struggled to explain how
race affects welfare state development beyond the Black-White divide. This article uses a …

In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty—the third highest child poverty rate
among industrialized countries. Five years later, the child poverty rate in Britain had fallen by …

Abstract In the United States, economic inequality is both racialized and gendered, with
Black and Latina women consistently at the bottom of the economic hierarchy. Relative to …

I argue that worker-client relations and their consequences are the actual manifestation of
people changing policies. A theoretical framework is presented to explain the path from the …

In the United States, the numbers of impoverished women with children and no cash safety
net are increasing and constitute an emerging population. Many have exhausted cash …

The Negro Family, highlighted family structure, along with the legacy of slavery and
sustained discrimination, and inadequate employment opportunities, as key determinants of …

This study examined economic disconnection, an extreme case of economic exclusion in
which families lack both employment and cash assistance, among families in the child …

Research on race and welfare focuses largely on characterizations of black and white
welfare recipients. Few studies examine racialized welfare discourse beyond the black …