Cleavage in American attitudes toward social welfare. From: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Epstein, William M. | COPYRIGHT 2004 Western Michigan University, School of Social Work. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Opinion polls probing both the narrow and broad senses of social welfare among Americans indicate hardly any substantial differences over crucial social sentiments among a variety of groups with at least theoretically divergent interests: rich and pool, men and women, blacks and whites, a variety of ethnic groups, union and nonunion households. The items mainly concern the provision of welfare to the poor through AFDC, now TANF, and Food Stamps but also cover OASDHI. Consistently ov...

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