Who deserves help? Who must provide? / Globalization, American politics, and welfare policy / Welfare reform, family hardship, and women of color / Success stories: welfare reform, policy discourse, and the politics of research / Fallacies of welfare-to-work policies / Violating women: rights abuses in the welfare police state / Attacking welfare racism/honoring poor people's human rights / Welfare reform and neighborhoods: race and civic participation / Friends or foes? Non-profits and the puzzle of welfare reform / Learning from the history of poor and working-class women's activism / Closing the care gap that welfare reform left behind / view from the bottom: poor people and their allies respond to welfare reform