Welfare-to-Work, Farewell to Families? US Welfare Reform and Work/Family Debates
指出美国福利改革对贫困单身母亲的工作与家庭困境加剧，未缓解贫困，并探讨了改革如何重塑低薪工作与家庭照料成本的社会化，呼吁弥合研究与政策差距以促进收入平等。
There are large research, policy, and economic gaps between the ways US researchers and policy makers address the work/family bind amongst middleclass professionals and poor lone mothers. This is clearly seen in US welfare reform, an important piece of work/family legislation in the 1990s. The new rules make the work/family binds worse for low-income, poor mothers and do not alleviate poverty. With its clear expectation that poor mothers be employed, the legislation opens up new avenues to revamp low-wage work for breadwinners and to socialize the costs of caring for family. Closing the literature gap may help to close the policy gap, which, in turn, would promote more income equality.