Gaining Ground in Illinois

ISBN-13: 9780875806273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 194 str.

Dan A. Lewis

Opis

This book illuminates federal welfare reform study findings and offers advice for policymakers. In 1997, then state Senator Barack Obama sponsored legislation in the Illinois General Assembly to study the newly passed federal welfare reform and how it would affect the citizens of Illinois. He believed that a sound piece of research assessing how the new law affected the poor of Illinois would give lawmakers a way to come together and improve the law and the lives of the poor. In the highly charged times of the 1990s when ideology often trumped pragmatism, the assumptions and values of policy makers often shaped their work much to the detriment of those affected by the policies.