Transforming Welfare tells the inside story of the legislation that ended " welfare as we know it." As a key staffer on the House Ways and Means Committee, author Ron Haskins ...

Examines the realities of welfare dependency and the true cost of subsistence living

A prominent college professor enters a world of terror after murdering his wife

This reader examines the family through two lenses--the familiar private family, in which we live our personal lives, and the public family, in which we deal with broader ...

"Clarence Cecil 'Skippy' Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage and a commitment to learning. Unfortuantely, for an African American coming of age in the ...

More than half of all children in the current generation will live with a single parent. Based on four national surveys and drawing on a decade of research, this powerful book ...

Welfare reform was a spectacular success in New York under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and surprising because of the city's history of liberal social programs and its huge ...