Getting By offers an integrated, critical account of the federal laws and programs that most directly affect poor and low-income people in the United States-the unemployed, the underemployed, and the low-wage employed, whether working in or outside the home. The central aim is to provide a resource for individuals and groups trying to access benefits, secure rights and protections, and mobilize for economic justice. The topics covered include cash assistance, employment and labor rights, food assistance, health care, education, consumer and banking law, housing assistance, rights in public places, access to justice, and voting rights. This comprehensive volume is appropriate for law school and undergraduate courses, and is a vital resource for policy makers, journalists, and others interested in social welfare policy in the United States.
ISBN: | 9780199938513 |
Publication date: | 7th January 2020 |
Author: | Helen (Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties Co-Director, Arthur Garf Hershkoff |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 872 pages |
Genres: |
Social security and welfare law Employment and labour law: general Law: Human rights and civil liberties Law and society, sociology of law |