CQ's Vital Issues S. Series

This study examines immigration into the United States in the 1990s and how it is playing out across the country. Currently, America recieves over one million immigrants per year, both legal and illegal, but does this affect the economy favourably or adversely?

Welfare Reform

by Ann Chih Lin

Published 1 October 2001

CQ's Vital Issues Series is a new reference collection that provides unparalleled, non-biased analysis of controversial topics debated at the local, state, and federal levels. All sides of an issue are equally covered, and the series delves into gray areas and well-defined positions. The series takes on hot topics that dominate the media, shape election-year politics and confront the American public.

Each Book Includes:
-- A CQ Researcher issue, also published by CQ press, that introduces the subject
-- In-depth explanation of pertinent politics, policy, and political players on federal, state, and local levels
-- An analysis of key for-profit and non-profit business interests
-- Discussion of the international reaction to how the U.S. handles the issue.

The books also feature extensive appendices of key documents such as a chronology, bibliographies, Web sites, encyclopedia articles, primary documents, facts, commentaries, policies, and Supreme Court rulings. A valuable series for high school, community college and university students, as well as public library patrons interested in timely issues. The first three books in the series are Capital Punishment, Welfare Reform, and Immigration.

This book explores the motivations to reform the welfare system during the most prosperous decade in recent U.S. history and the successes and failures thus far. It examines major welfare reform by acknowledging the incipient reform efforts of the late 1980's, which made way for the 90's movement to get people "off of welfare rolls" and provide a "hand up, not a hand out."