This best-selling book provides a comprehensive overview of social welfare policy in the United States while examining such cutting-edge issues as technology and social welfare policy and the relationship between tax policy and social welfare policy. The new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the impact of dramatic changes in social welfare policy. The book examines how the major sectors of social welfare policy - the voluntary, governmental, corporate, and private sectors - operate and co-exist (the "pluralist approach"). It also offers a clear, user-friendly framework for policy analysis. The new edition includes coverage of the impact of welfare reform legislation. For social workers, or anyone interested in social welfare policy.
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Thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the impact of dramatic changes in social welfare policy, the Fifth Edition continues to focus on how the major sectors of social welfare policy the voluntary, governmental, and corporate sectors operate and co-exist (the pluralist approach ), while also offering a clear, user-friendly framework for policy analysis.
Highlights of the Fifth Edition:
Themes of the Times for Social Welfare Policy
This collection of recent articles from the New York Times will give insight into current issues and debates, highlighting interesting research, and show some of the practical applications of studying social welfare policy. Themes of the Times for Social Welfare Policy is available FREE when packaged with this text: 0-205-46204-9.
Controversial Issues in Social Policy, 2/e, Karger, et al.
This text is an edited collection of contemporary social policy debates conducted between some of the foremost thinkers in the field of social work, as well as prominent authors in other fields. Jargon-free debates make the text easily accessible and interesting for students. The text stresses the importance of critical and independent thought in the educational process. Controversial Issues in Social Policy is available FREE when packaged with this text: 0-205-47167-6.
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