Hard luck and welfare. (book review)
American Prospect, The, August, 2002 by Lewis, Kathryn
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Hands to Work: The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare Clock By LynNell Hancock. William Morrow, 320 pages, $25.95
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AFTER FLEEING ABUSE AT home, Brenda Fields and her children, Ty, 3, and Loreal, 17, found themselves on the doorstep of the Emergency Assistance Unit on East 151st Street in the Bronx on a brisk February day in 1997. They were at the mercy of the city of New York in the midst of America's experiment "to end welfare as we know it." Before long, the Fields family, we learn from LynNell Hancock's account in Hands to Work, was moving through a series ...
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