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A 5 page research paper that offers an overview of 2 books Jason DeParle’s American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare and Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A frontline report on climate change (using secondary sources), with both books examined from the perspective of public affairs. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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welfare reform instigated by the Clinton administration in the 1990s by giving it a human face, as he follows the lives of three poor women living in Wisconsin and relates
how they were affected by welfare reform (Munger 391). In this text, DeParle shows that welfare does not determine the womens fate. Welfare reform endeavored to replace welfare with work.
However, DeParle shows that the women had always combined work with welfare, so the disappearance of welfare did not alter their lives to a considerable extent (Munger 391). However, more
telling, in regards to the books public affairs implications, is the fact that DeParle discusses how the "meager contingent welfare assistance available to them" was less important to the quality
of their lives than welfare reformers would surmise (Munger 391). As this suggests, a principal focus for DeParle are the limited opportunities available to poor women. The failure of reform
to create improvement in the quality of these womens lives and help to alleviate their poverty indicates "a poor fit between public assistance and their needs" (Munger 391). Therefore, the
most significant issue raised by DeParle is not the privatization of welfare, but its inefficiency and how this should affect the "deregulation of welfare altogether" (Munger 391). Relevance: The
Hauptmann School of Public Affairs defines "public affairs" in terms that underscore the significance of the inter-relationships that exist between the activities of government, on all levels, with the other
factors that exist within the social and economic systems. In her book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert offers a "brilliant description of the realities of global warming," as
well as a "passionate plea for action while there is still time" for government action to have meaning ("Field Notes" 64). DeParle uses his journalistic expertise to put a
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