Description: Product Description : Feeding the Crisis: Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 71) The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP formerly known as food stamps is one of the most controversial forms of social welfare in the United States Although its commonly believed that such federal programs have been cut back since the 1980s Maggie Dickinson charts the dramatic expansion and reformulation of the food safety net in the twentyfirst century Today receiving SNAP benefits is often tied to work requirements which essentially subsidizes lowwage jobs Excluded populationssuch as the unemployed informally employed workers and undocumented immigrantsmust rely on charity to surviveFeeding the Crisis tells the story of eight families as they navigate the terrain of an expanding network of assistance programs in which care and abandonment work hand in hand to make access to food uncertain for people on the social and economic margins Amid calls at the federal level to expand work requirements for food assistance Dickinson shows us how such ideas are bad policy that fail to adequately address hunger in America Feeding the Crisis brings the voices of foodinsecure families into national debates about welfare policy offering fresh insights into how we can establish a right to food in the United States( it is an used product )
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Brand: University of California Press
UPC: 9780520307674
MPN: 9.78052E+12
Model No: 9.78052E+12
Country of Origin: USA United States
Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1
Dimensions LxWxH - Cms: 5.5X0.55X8.25
ISBN-10: 520307674
ISBN-13: 9780520307674
SKU: SONG0520307674
Edition: First Edition
No. of Pages: 219
Type: Books
Book Title: Feeding the Crisis : Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Genre: Law, Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Author: Maggie Dickinson
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Book Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
