What is included with this book?
Acknowledgments | p. viii |
List of Tables | p. ix |
Commonly Used Acronyms | p. x |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Poverty and Work | p. 2 |
Misconceptions | p. 5 |
A Look Ahead | p. 6 |
Poor Men's Work Problems | p. 8 |
Poor Men and Work | p. 8 |
Nonwork and Other Problems | p. 10 |
Work as Strategic | p. 11 |
Key Groups | p. 13 |
Causes of Nonwork | p. 14 |
Approaches to Nonwork | p. 14 |
Benefit-Oriented Programs | p. 24 |
The Need for Structure | p. 27 |
Conclusion | p. 31 |
Child Support Enforcement | p. 33 |
Improving Enforcement | p. 34 |
Approaches to Enforcement | p. 38 |
Enforcement Programs | p. 40 |
Fatherhood Programs | p. 43 |
Evaluations | p. 45 |
Conclusion | p. 49 |
Criminal Justice | p. 51 |
Responses to Crime | p. 51 |
The Appeal to Community | p. 54 |
Prison Reentry Programs | p. 56 |
Service-Oriented Programs | p. 59 |
Evaluations | p. 60 |
Conclusion | p. 64 |
Implementing Programs | p. 66 |
Past Research | p. 66 |
Getting to Scale | p. 67 |
The Implementation Problem | p. 70 |
Child Support Enforcement | p. 71 |
Criminal Justice | p. 75 |
Past Programs | p. 77 |
The State Survey | p. 78 |
Findings | p. 79 |
Trends over Time | p. 80 |
Field Interviews | p. 81 |
The View from the Field | p. 82 |
State Variations | p. 83 |
Explaining State Differences | p. 87 |
Conclusion | p. 94 |
Recommendations | p. 96 |
Desirable Features | p. 96 |
Costs | p. 102 |
Unresolved Issues | p. 104 |
The Benefit Side | p. 107 |
Men for Themselves | p. 109 |
National Policy | p. 111 |
Funding | p. 111 |
Evaluation | p. 114 |
The Benefit Side | p. 116 |
The Need for Vision | p. 116 |
Appendix: Method | p. 118 |
The State Survey | p. 118 |
Field Interviews | p. 121 |
Notes | p. 127 |
Index | p. 145 |
About the Author | p. 155 |
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