American Social Welfare Policy
ISBN: 9780205627080 | 0205627080
Edition: 6thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 2/17/2009
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This best-selling text provides a comprehensive overview of social welfare policy in the United States while examining cutting-edge issues, including information on the 2008 presidential election, the economy, and much more.
| Each chapter concludes with Conclusion Discussion Questions and Notes | |
| Preface | |
| American Social Welfare Policy | |
| Social Policy and the American Welfare State | |
| Definitions of Social Welfare Policy | |
| Social Problems and Social Welfare Policy | |
| Social Work and Social Policy | |
| Values, Ideology, and Social Welfare Policy | |
| The Political Econom... MORE | |
| The U.S. Economic Continuum | |
| Keynesian Economics | |
| Conservative or Free Market Economics | |
| Democratic Socialism | |
| The U.S. Political Continuum | |
| Liberalism and Left-of-Center Movements | |
| Classical Conservatives and the Far Right | |
| The Welfare Philosophers and the Neoconservative Think Tanks | |
| Social Welfare Policy Research: a Framework for Policy Analysis | |
| A Proposed Model for Policy Analysis | |
| Historical Background of the Policy | |
| Problem(s) That Necessitate the Policy | |
| Policy Description | |
| Policy Analysis | |
| Researching and Analyzing Social Policies | |
| Social Policy Research and the Internet | |
| Journals and Online Research | |
| Online Data Collection | |
| Ethical Concerns Related to Online Research Involving Human Subjects | |
| Finding and Accessing Online Information | |
| Citing and Documenting Information Obtained Online | |
| Evaluating Reliable and Legitimate Internet Sources | |
| Electronic Journals: An Increasingly Popular Venue | |
| Online Publishing | |
| Religion and Social Welfare Policy | |
| Religious Antecedents of Welfare Statism | |
| The English Poor Laws | |
| Church, State, and Social Welfare in Colonial America | |
| The Second Great Awakening | |
| The Civil War Era | |
| The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | |
| The Rise Of Social Work As A Profession | |
| Urban Needs During Industrialization | |
| Charity Organization Societies | |
| Settlement Houses | |
| The Social Casework Agency | |
| The Progressive Movement | |
| Religion and the Post-Industrial Welfare State | |
| The Fundamentalist Controversy and Its Aftermath | |
| The Great Depression and New Deal | |
| Patterns of Religious Change | |
| Religion and the New Media | |
| Secularization | |
| The Reawakening of a Religious Social Conscience and the Great Society | |
| The Continuing Decline of Mainline Influence | |
| The New Christian Right | |
| Discrimination in American Society | |
| Discrimination | |
| Racism | |
| The Minority Middle Class | |
| Discrimination against African Americans | |
| The "Diswelfare" of African Americans | |
| Hispanic Americans | |
| The Demography of Hispanic Americans | |
| Hispanic Poverty and Income | |
| Diversity in the Hispanic Population | |
| Native Americans | |
| Asian Americans | |
| Immigrants and Immigration | |
| Women and Society | |
| Violence and Sexism | |
| The Feminization of Poverty | |
| Women and Low-Income Work | |
| Women and Work | |
| Income and Job Disparities between Men and Women | |
| Day Care: A Barrier to Female Employment | |
| Women in Uniform | |
| Other Obstacles Faced by Working Women | |
| Fighting Back: The Equal Rights Amendment and Comparable Worth | |
| Abortion and Women's Rights | |
| Gays and Lesbians: Two Populations at Risk | |
| Violence against Gays and Lesbians | |
| Gay Rights | |
| Gay and Lesbians in the Military | |
| Gay and Lesbian Family Life | |
| AIDS and the Gay Community | |
| Ageism | |
| The Elderly Poor and Social Programs | |
| Health Care and the Elderly | |
| People with Disabilities | |
| Legal Attempts to Remedy Discrimination | |
| Affirmative Action | |
| Poverty in America | |
| Some Theoretical Formulations about Poverty | |
| African Americans and Poverty | |
| The Culture of Poverty | |
| Eugenics and Poverty | |
| The Radical School and Poverty | |
| Who Make Up the Poor? | |
| U.S. Poverty Highlights | |
| Measuring Poverty | |
| Families and Poverty | |
| Child Support Enforcement | |
| Children in Poverty | |
| Poverty and the Elderly | |
| The Urban and Rural Poor | |
| Work and Poverty | |
| A Profile of the Working Poor | |
| Why Are There Working Poor? | |
| Underemployment and Unemployment | |
| Job Training Programs | |
| Dual Labor Markets | |
| The Minimum Wage and Poverty | |
| Strategies Developed to Combat Poverty | |
| IDAs | |
| Three Approaches to Combat Poverty | |
| The Digital Divide | |
| America's Fringe Economy | |
| The Unbanked and the Functionally Poor | |
| Credit and the Poor | |
| The Furniture and Appliance Rental Industry | |
| Cash Loans | |
| Pawnshops | |
| Car Title Pawns | |
| Payday Loans | |
| Tax Refund Loans (RALs) | |
| Check-Cashing | |
| Transportation in the Fringe Economy | |
| The Voluntary And For-Profit Social Sectors | |
| The Voluntary Sector Today | |
| Structural Interests within Social Welfare | |
| Traditional Providers | |
| Welfare Bureaucrats | |
| Clinical Entrepreneurs | |
| Human Service Executives | |
| Marginal Interests | |
| The Forgotten Sector | |
| Advancing Social Justice | |
| Contemporary Nonprofit Human Service Organizations | |
| The United Way | |
| Elite Philanthropy | |
| The Future of the Voluntary Sector | |
| Commercialization | |
| Faith-Based Social Services | |
| Social Entrepreneurship | |
| Privatization and Human Service Corporations | |
| Concerns about Privatization | |
| Privatizing Public Welfare | |
| Issues in the Privatization of Health and Human Services | |
| Commercialization | |
| Preferential Selection | |
| Cost-Effectiveness | |
| Standardization | |
| Oligopolization | |
| The Challenge of Privatization | |
| Unions and the Private Sector | |
| Corporate Welfare | |
| History of the Corporate Sector | |
| Corporate Social Responsibility | |
| Corporate Influence on Social Welfare Policy | |
| The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) | |
| The Heritage Foundation | |
| The Future of Corporate Involvement in Social Welfare | |
| Human Service Corporations | |
| The Scope of Human Service Corporations | |
| Consolidation and Growth in Human Service Markets | |
| Nursing Homes | |
| Hospital Management | |
| Health Maintenance Organizations | |
| Child Care | |
| Home Health Care | |
| Corrections | |
| Life Care and Continuing Care | |
| The Government Sector | |
| The Making of Governmental Policy | |
| Technical Aspects of the Policy Process | |
| A Critical Analysis of the Policy Process | |
| The Policy Process | |
| Social Stratification | |
| Formulation | |
| Legislation | |
| Implementation | |
| Evaluation | |
| Non-Decision Making | |
| Social Workers and Social Reform | |
| Social Work and Advocacy Organizations | |
| Advocacy Organizations and the New Policy Institutes | |
| Political Practice | |
| Tax Policy and Income Distribution | |
| History of U.S. Tax Policy | |
| Tax Policy and Special Interests | |
| Federal Tax Policy | |
| The Efficiency of Tax Policy in Reducing Poverty | |
| Tax Expenditures as Poverty Policy | |
| The Antitax Movement | |
| Social Insurance Programs | |
| Definition of Social Insurance | |
| The Background of Social Insurance | |
| The Financial Organization of Social Insurance | |
| Key Social Insurance Programs | |
| OASDI | |
| Unemployment Insurance | |
| Workers' Compensation | |
| The Social Security Dilemma | |
| Arguments against the Current Social Security System | |
| Arguments for the Current Social Security System | |
| Social Security in Trouble | |
| The Long-Term Prospects for Social Security | |
| Proposed Solutions for Social Security | |
| Should We Privatize Social Security? | |
| Public Assistance Programs | |
| Some Assumptions That Underlie Public Assistance | |
| Myths about Public Assistance | |
| Aid to Families with Dependent Children | |
| The Evolution of the AFDC Program | |
| The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 | |
| Has the PRWORA Worked? | |
| Proposed Changes in the TANF Program | |
| Supplemental Security Income | |
| General Assistance | |
| Trends and Issues in Public Assistance | |
| Transforming Public Assistance Policy into Labor Policy | |
| Teenage Pregnancy | |
| The Underclass | |
| Welfare Behaviorism | |
| Welfare to Work | |
| The Inadequacy of Public Assistance Benefits | |
| Appendix: Highlights of Selected State Welfare Demonstration Projects, 2000 | |
| The American Health Care System | |
| The Uninsured | |
| The Organization of Medical Services | |
| Major Public Health Care Programs: Medicare, Medicaid, and S-CHIP | |
| Medicare | |
| Medicaid | |
| The State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) | |
| The Tobacco Settlement | |
| The Health Care Crisis | |
| Overview of U.S. Health Care Expenditures | |
| U.S. Health Care in International Perspective | |
| Explaining the High Cost of U.S. Health Care | |
| Hospital Costs | |
| Physicians' Salaries | |
| The Pharmaceutical Industry | |
| Cutting Health Care Costs | |
| Managed Care | |
| The Underinsured | |
| AIDS and Health Care | |
| Reforming U.S. Health Care | |
| Socialized Medicine | |
| National Health Insurance | |
| Incremental Reform | |
| Comparative Analysis: Health Care in Canada and Britain | |
| The Canadian Health Care System | |
| Britain's National Health Service | |
| Mental Health and Substance Abuse Policy | |
| Mental Health Reform | |
| The Community Mental Health Centers Acts | |
| Deinstitutionalization | |
| The Revolving Door | |
| CMHCs under Siege | |
| Preventive Commitment | |
| Mental Health Service Delivery | |
| Parity for Mental Health Care | |
| Substance Abuse | |
| History of Substance Abuse | |
| Alcohol Abuse | |
| Drug Abuse | |
| Private Practice and Mental Health Services | |
| Private Practice in Social Work | |
| The Business of Private Practice | |
| The Future of the Private Sector | |
| Criminal Justice | |
| History of U.S. Criminal Justice | |
| The Criminal Justice System | |
| Juvenile Justice | |
| The War on Drugs | |
| The Underclass and "Moral Poverty" | |
| Legalization of Drugs | |
| The "New Penology" | |
| The Future of Criminal Justice | |
| Child Welfare Policy | |
| History of U.S. Child Welfare Policy | |
| Protective Services for Children | |
| Foster Care for Children | |
| Adoption | |
| Head Start | |
| Emerging Issues in Child Welfare | |
| Day Care | |
| Maternal and Child Health | |
| Teen Pregnancy | |
| Housing Policies | |
| Overview of Housing Legislation | |
| The Federal Government and Low-Income Housing Programs | |
| Issues in Housing Policy | |
| Trends in U.S. Housing | |
| Problems in Home Ownership | |
| Problems in Finding Affordable Rental Housing | |
| Other Factors Affecting Housing | |
| Homelessness | |
| Characteristics of the Homeless Population | |
| Trends in Homelessness | |
| Attempts to Address Homelessness | |
| Housing Reform | |
| The Politics of Food Policy and Rural Life | |
| Hunger in the United States | |
| The Face of American Hunger | |
| Governmental Food Programs | |
| A Short History of Food Stamps and a Description of the Program | |
| Food Stamps: Who Is in the Program and What Does It Cost? | |
| Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) | |
| Other Food Programs | |
| Have the Food Programs Worked? | |
| Farming in the United States | |
| Governmental Farm Policies | |
| The Face of U.S. Farming | |
| Farmworkers | |
| Who Are America's Farmworkers? | |
| Issues in American Farming | |
| The Corporatization of American Farming | |
| Sustainable Agriculture | |
| The American Welfare State In Perspective | |
| The American Welfare State in International Perspective | |
| Typologies of Welfare States | |
| American Exceptionalism | |
| The Welfare State in Transition | |
| Ranking National Development | |
| The Weighted Index of Social Progress | |
| The Human Development Index | |
| Capability Poverty | |
| International Aid | |
| Global Capital | |
| The Future | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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