We Suggest These Books If You Want to Know More: ``Welfare's End,'' Gwendolyn Mink, Cornell University Press, 1998. Gender and race analysis. ``Sweet Charity? The Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement,'' Janet Poppendieck, Viking, 1998. Hunter faculty member discusses trade-off between personal charity and the political support for systematic assistance to the hungry. ``Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present, ''Mimi Abramovitz, South End Press, 1988. Hunter faculty member groundbreaking study of how the law has treated poor women. ``Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work, Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, Russell Sage Foundation, 1997. Authoritative study of unmarried mothers' survival strategies. ``Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty,'' Randy Albelda and Chris Tully, South End Press, 1997. Two progressive economists crunch the numbers and theories.