Description: Feeding the Crisis : Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net, Paperback by Dickinson, Maggie, ISBN 0520307674, ISBN-13 9780520307674, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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. Despite the common belief 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 21st century. Today, receiving SNAP benefits is often tied to work requirements, essentially subsidizing low-wage jobs. Excluded populations--from the unemployed to informally employed workers to undocumented immigrants--must rely on charity to survive. Feeding the Crisis tells the story of eight families as they navigate the terrain of an expanding network of food assistance programs where care and abandonment work hand in hand to regulate people on the social and economic margins. Amid calls at the federal level to expand 'work for food' requirements for food assistance, Maggie Dickinson shows us how such ideas are bad policy that fail to adequately address hunger in America. Feeding the Crisis brings the voices of food insecure families into national debates about welfare policy, offering fresh insights into how we can establish a right to food in the United States"--
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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
Topic: Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 0.8 in
Genre: Law, Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Author: Maggie Dickinson
Item Length: 8.2 in
Book Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
