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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity (Rural Studies)

by Kathleen Ann (edt) Pickering

Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity (Rural Studies) Cover

ISBN13: 9780271028774
ISBN10: 0271028777
Condition: Standard
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Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted, policy makers, agency administrators, community activists, and academics from a broad range of disciplines have debated and researched the implications of welfare reform in the United States. Most of the attention, however, has focused on urban rather than rural America.
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ISBN:
9780271028774
Subtitle:
Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity
Author:
Pickering, Kathleen Ann (edt)
Author:
Summers, Gene F.
Author:
Pickering, Kathleen
Author:
Harvey, Mark H.
Publisher:
Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject:
Public welfare
Subject:
Sociology, rural
Subject:
Poverty
Subject:
Rural poor
Subject:
United States - 21st Century
Subject:
Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
Subject:
Public welfare -- United States.
Subject:
United States Rural conditions.
Copyright:
2006
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Series:
Rural Studies
Publication Date:
August 2006
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
244
Dimensions:
940x642x91 123
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