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Hands to Work: The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare Clock |
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The welfare reform law of 1996 is considered one of the most successful policy achievements in recent memory, with huge reductions in the number of people receiving public aid. In Hands to Work, LynNell Hancock insists that we look beyond the numbers: "The new welfare world is an emerging, untested social experiment--one that has the potential to define what kind of nation we want to be, what kind of government we think is most fair," she writes. "But in the end it is simply a human saga." She describes the lives of three women as they grapple with this new welfare world. They share little in common besides residence in the Bronx: one is an ambitious Russian refugee who wants to become a doctor, another is a Puerto Rican heroin addict, and the last is an African American single mother. Hancock describes their "nuanced and messy" lives in some detail, and their experiences "can be viewed in many ways to justify one political view of welfare or another." Hancock herself views them from a liberal perspective, believing that pumping more money into welfare programs would improve the lot. Readers can make up their own minds, though the ones predisposed to agreeing with Hancock probably will like her book best. --John Miller
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