title: A nursing critique of US welfare system reform.
abstract: In 1996, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program was repealed, and the welfare system in the United States was changed. This article critiques, from a nursing perspective, US welfare system reform. It interrogates dominant ideologies about poverty, welfare, and waged labor; examines federal welfare reform legislation of the 1990s and its programmatic implementation at the state level; discusses global health and safety implications of welfare replacement initiatives; and challenges nurses to political and scholarly action.
authors: School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
authors: P E
authors: PE
authors: Stevens
mesh_terms: D000385:Aid to Families with Dependent Children / Q000458:organization & administration*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006292:Health Priorities; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011057:Politics; D011203:Poverty; D012449:Safety; D012946:Social Welfare / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States