Social Welfare: Politics and Public Policy - (Fifth Edition)

Author: Dinito
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book introduces the main social welfare policies and programs in the United States and encourages readers to reflect on the conflicts inherent in today's social welfare policies. The book covers the history, trends, current challenges, and prospects of major U.S. social welfare programs, focusing on the complex conflicts and debates surrounding these programs. Social Welfare: Politics and Public Policy views social policy as an ongoing political struggle—a continuous debate sparked by poverty and other social welfare issues in society. This struggle involves differing goals and objectives, varied definitions of the problems, alternative methods and strategies, diverse programs and policies, competing "reform" proposals, and differing ideas on how to formulate social welfare policies.