Backlash against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Part I. Welfare Opposition: Causes and Consequences 1. Deferred Dreams, Broken Families, and Hardship: The Impact of Welfare Reform 3 2. Attacking Welfare, Promoting Work and Marriage: Continuity and Change in Welfare Opposition 20 Part II. The First Welfare Backlash (1945–1979) 3. The 1950s Welfare Backlash and Federal Complicity 35 4. Explaining the Postwar Rise of Welfare Opposition 48 5. Southern Welfare Backlashes: Georgia and Kentucky 70 6. Western and Northern Welfare Backlashes: California and New York 86 7. Setting the Stage: The Failures of Liberal Innovation 107 Part III. The Contemporary Welfare Backlash (1980–2004) 8. The Rise of the Republican Right and the New Democrats 133 9. Business Interests, Conservative Think Tanks, and the Assault on Welfare 150 10. Congressional Attacks on Welfare, 1980–2004 172 11. Rebuilding the Welfare State: Forging a New Deal for Working Families 198 Appendix 1: States That Restricted Eligibility for ADC (1949–1960) 209 Appendix 2: Variables and Data Sources Used in Quantitative Analysis 210 Notes 213 References 271 Index 331 viii / Contents ...