Sheila Katz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4777177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheila Katz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheila |
| FAMILY NAME | Katz |
| SIGNATURE | KATZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Welfare mothers’ grassroots activism for economic justice
Several events during the course of this research – including the Great Recession, Barack Obama’s election and presidency, and the Occupy and student protests – increasingly focused media attention and public interest on social justice and economic inequality. Given the 2016 US elections interest continued to grow on these topics and sparked new attention to the role of organising and activism on social policy issues such as on health care, the e…
Addicted.pregnant.poor
Ain’t No Trust
Give Us a Chance to Get an Education”
Sweeping changes in 1996 to the U.S. national welfare system prioritized “work-first” policies while restricting educational opportunities for mothers on welfare. Based on qualitative longitudinal interviews and focus groups with 64 women participating in California's welfare reform program, CalWORKs, this research focuses on the narratives of single mothers on welfare pursuing higher education after the “end of welfare as we know it” by construc…
Tanf’s 15th Anniversary and the Great Recession
This article examines the impact of welfare reform for the upward economic mobility of low‐income families at the fifteenth anniversary of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The reformed policy was based on assumptions about participating families’ morality and encouraged states to move families off welfare through work and marriage without considering whether they were still poor. TANF was also implemented during an econ…
Against the Odds
Big and Little Brother Bilateralism
The neoliberal rhetoric of free trade offers rosy pictures of a “flat world,” a “level playing field” in which freedom may bloom thanks to the removal of restrictions and barriers. In their discussion of Canada’s decision to establish a bilateral free trade agreement with Colombia, Teresa Healy and Sheila Katz expose the harsh reality of power politics underlying the rhetoric of freedom. They show that the deal with Colombia is part of a new stat…
Give Us a Chance to Get an Education”
Sweeping changes in 1996 to the U.S. national welfare system prioritized “work-first” policies while restricting educational opportunities for mothers on welfare. Based on qualitative longitudinal interviews and focus groups with 64 women participating in California's welfare reform program, CalWORKs, this research focuses on the narratives of single mothers on welfare pursuing higher education after the “end of welfare as we know it” by construc…
Welfare mothers’ grassroots activism for economic justice
Several events during the course of this research – including the Great Recession, Barack Obama’s election and presidency, and the Occupy and student protests – increasingly focused media attention and public interest on social justice and economic inequality. Given the 2016 US elections interest continued to grow on these topics and sparked new attention to the role of organising and activism on social policy issues such as on health care, the e…
Tanf’s 15th Anniversary and the Great Recession
This article examines the impact of welfare reform for the upward economic mobility of low‐income families at the fifteenth anniversary of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The reformed policy was based on assumptions about participating families’ morality and encouraged states to move families off welfare through work and marriage without considering whether they were still poor. TANF was also implemented during an econ…
Big and Little Brother Bilateralism
The neoliberal rhetoric of free trade offers rosy pictures of a “flat world,” a “level playing field” in which freedom may bloom thanks to the removal of restrictions and barriers. In their discussion of Canada’s decision to establish a bilateral free trade agreement with Colombia, Teresa Healy and Sheila Katz expose the harsh reality of power politics underlying the rhetoric of freedom. They show that the deal with Colombia is part of a new stat…
Big and Little Brother Bilateralism
The neoliberal rhetoric of free trade offers rosy pictures of a “flat world,” a “level playing field” in which freedom may bloom thanks to the removal of restrictions and barriers. In their discussion of Canada’s decision to establish a bilateral free trade agreement with Colombia, Teresa Healy and Sheila Katz expose the harsh reality of power politics underlying the rhetoric of freedom. They show that the deal with Colombia is part of a new stat…
Against the Odds
Tanf’s 15th Anniversary and the Great Recession
This article examines the impact of welfare reform for the upward economic mobility of low‐income families at the fifteenth anniversary of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The reformed policy was based on assumptions about participating families’ morality and encouraged states to move families off welfare through work and marriage without considering whether they were still poor. TANF was also implemented during an econ…
Give Us a Chance to Get an Education”
Sweeping changes in 1996 to the U.S. national welfare system prioritized “work-first” policies while restricting educational opportunities for mothers on welfare. Based on qualitative longitudinal interviews and focus groups with 64 women participating in California's welfare reform program, CalWORKs, this research focuses on the narratives of single mothers on welfare pursuing higher education after the “end of welfare as we know it” by construc…
Ain’t No Trust
Welfare mothers’ grassroots activism for economic justice
Several events during the course of this research – including the Great Recession, Barack Obama’s election and presidency, and the Occupy and student protests – increasingly focused media attention and public interest on social justice and economic inequality. Given the 2016 US elections interest continued to grow on these topics and sparked new attention to the role of organising and activism on social policy issues such as on health care, the e…
Addicted.pregnant.poor
Economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (3 works) · Welfare (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · International Relations in Latin America (2 works)