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AbstractThis 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 economic boom. Today, the US economy is suffering from the effects of the Great Recession, with many fearing a double dip recession. Poverty rates rose during the last 3 years and are currently above 15 percent. For the first time since 1996, the welfare rolls are increasing in many states. Welfare reform's 'work first' approach did not create lasting upward economic mobility for low‐income families. As an alternative, I explore how higher education for welfare mothers will create opportunities for lasting upward mobility, even in times of recession.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction; 1. Reforming the American Dream; 2. Pathways onto Welfare and into College; 3. Reformed Grassroots Activism; 4. Survival through College; 5. My Education Means Everything to Me; 6. Hope and Fear during the Great Recession; 7. Graduating into the Great Recession; 8. An American Dream for All; Afterword: Evolution of the American Dream; Appendix A: Methods Appendix; Appendix B: Profiles of Interview Participants in 2006; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; About the Author

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Reforming the American Dream -- 2. Pathways onto Welfare and into College -- 3. Reformed Grassroots Activism -- 4. Survival through College -- 5. My Education Means Everything to Me -- 6. Hope and Fear during the Great Recession -- 7. Graduating into the Great Recession -- 8. An American Dream for All -- Afterword: Evolution of the American Dream -- Appendix A: Methods Appendix -- Appendix B: Profiles of Interview Participants in 2006 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Introduction : subversive encounters -- Quotidian contact, new conflict : under the Ottomans, 1880/1918 -- Opportunities and obstacles : under the British, 1919/1939 -- Catastrophe and celebration : 1940/1967 -- The new dialogue : 1967/1980 -- Grassroots breakthroughs : 1980/1988 -- First intifada : 1988/1992 -- In the wake of Oslo : 1992/1999 -- Suicide bombs and circuses : 2000/2005 -- Co-resistance : 2005/2008 -- Missing peace/missing piece : 2009/2010

Once one lets go of the expectation of a more scholarly treatment of the complex issues of identity in Israel and the Middle East, one can appreciate the less rigorous but nevertheless nuanced conversations that Nissim Rejwan brings to this volume. Despite a dearth of footnotes, non-existent bibliography, somewhat haphazard organization, and overly ambitious aims, there still emerges an astute critique of the Ashkenazi-dominated Israeli establishment. Without ever using the word, Rejwan details a particular brand of racism that creates an illusion of a homogenous "other" out of a diverse mix of Jewish Israelis of Middle Eastern, North African, and African origin, as well as non-Jewish Palestinian and Middle Eastern Arabs.