The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families

The book concludes with an overview of an integrated safety net that would fight poverty more effectively and prevent children from slipping through holes in the net. For example, Currie recommends the implementation of a benefit debit card that would provide benefits with less administrative burden on the recipient. A complement to books such as Barbara Ehrenreich's bestselling Nickel and Dimed, which document the personal struggles of the working poor. The Invisible Safety Net provides a big picture book at the kind of programs and solutions that would help ease those struggles. Comprehensive and authoritative, it will prompt a major reexamination of the current thinking on improving the lives of needy Americans.

• | Author: Janet M. Currie
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: November 30, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0691138524
• | ISBN-13: 9780691138527