Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity

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WELFARE REFORM IN PERSISTENT RURAL POVERTY rural studies series Leif Jensen, General Editor Diane K. McLaughlin and Carolyn E. Sachs, Deputy Editors The Estuary’s Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography David Griffith Sociology in Government: The Galpin-Taylor Years in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1919–1953 Olaf F. Larson and Julie N. Zimmerman Assisted by Edward O. Moe Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century Edited by David L. Brown and Louis Swanson A Taste of the Country: A Collection of Calvin Beale’s Writings Peter A. Morrison Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability Michael Mayerfeld Bell Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System Patricia Allen Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life Edited by Hugh Campbell, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, and Margaret Finney WELFARE REFORM IN PERSISTENT RURAL POVERTY Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity Kathleen Pickering Mark H. Harvey Gene F. Summers David Mushinski THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Welfare reform in persistent rural poverty : dreams, disenchantments, and diversity / Kathleen Pickering. . . [et. al.]. p. cm. — (Rural studies series) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-271-02877-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Rural poor—United States—Case Studies. 2. Public welfare—United States—Case Studies. 3. United States—Rural Conditions—Case Studies. I. Pickering, Kathleen Ann, 1958– . II. Series: Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.) HC110.P6W43 2006 362.5'5680973—dc22 2006014262 Copyright © 2006 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003 The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. This book is printed on Natures Natural, containing 50% post-consumer waste, and meets minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ansi z39.48–1992. ...