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Social Welfare : Politics and Public Policy

ISBN: 9780130638199 | 0130638196
Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Pub. Date: 12/1/1994

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SummaryTable of Contents
B> This is the leading book in social welfare policy in departments of social work, political science, administration and government. Originally written with Thomas Dye, subsequent editions by Diana DiNitto have been acknowledged as the most comprehensive orientation to social welfare available. DiNitto's approach is politically neutral; she describes the major welfare programs, including welfare, social security, disability, health insurance, and more. This new edition includes new and updated information on welfare (TANF), food stamps, managed care, disability, aging, the change from a budget deficit to a budget surplus, the latest figures on poverty, and the latest information on job training and employment. For anyone interested in public policy or social welfare.
Prefacexi
1 Politics, Rationalism, and Social Welfare
1(34)
Politics and Social Welfare Policy
1(9)
... MORE
Scope of Social Welfare Policy
2(2)
Social Welfare Policy: A Rational Approach
4(3)
Social Welfare Policy: A Political Approach
7(3)
Illustration 1-1: Special Tips for the Legislative Process
10(2)
The Policymaking Process
12(5)
Agenda Setting
13(1)
Nondecisions
13(1)
The Mass Media
14(1)
The Budget
14(2)
Implementation
16(1)
The American Public and Social Welfare
17(1)
Illustration 1-2: How Americans See It
18(5)
America's Capacity for Giving
21(1)
Political Ideology and Social Welfare
22(1)
Illustration 1-3: The Language of Political Ideology
23(8)
PACs and Social Welfare
28(3)
Summary
31(1)
Notes
31(4)
2 Government and Social Welfare
35(32)
Historical Perspectives on Social Welfare
35(5)
Elizabethan Poor Law
36(1)
Early Relief in the United States
37(1)
The Great Depression and the New Deal
38(1)
The Great Society and the War on Poverty
39(1)
Illustration 2-1: The Revolution No One Noticed
40(2)
The Expansion of Social Welfare
42(4)
The Rural-to-Urban Migration
42(1)
Residency Requirements Eliminated
43(1)
Welfare Rights
43(1)
Cost-of-Living Adjustments
44(1)
The Graying of America
45(1)
Increase in Single-Parent Families
45(1)
Finances in the Welfare State
46(3)
The Legacy of "Reaganomics"
49(7)
The Supply Side
49(2)
No New Taxes?
51(1)
Helping the "Truly Needy"
52(1)
The States as Laboratories
53(1)
Privatization
54(2)
The Reagan-Bush Finale
56(1)
Clinton's New Covenant
56(6)
Reining in the Deficit
57(4)
Stimulating Job Growth
61(1)
Clinton's Big Three
61(1)
Summary
62(2)
Notes
64(3)
3 Defining Poverty: Where to Begin?
67(36)
What Is Poverty?
67(20)
Poverty as Deprivation
68(4)
In-kind Benefits: How Much Are They Worth?
72(1)
Who Are the Poor?
73(4)
Poverty as Inequality
77(2)
Why Are the Poor, Poor?
79(2)
Poverty as Culture
81(2)
Poverty as Exploitation
83(2)
Poverty as Structure
85(2)
Poor and Homeless: Not Invisible Anymore
87(3)
Who Are the Homeless?
87(2)
Affordable Housing
89(1)
Illustration 3-1: Poverty at the Martinique
90(2)
Illustration 3-2: The Homelessness Muddle
92(2)
Does Welfare Cause Poverty?
94(3)
Summary
97(1)
Notes
98(5)
4 Preventing Poverty: The Social Insurance Programs
103(28)
Preventing Poverty Through Compulsory Savings
103(9)
The Social Security Act
104(2)
OASDI: Now the Nation's Largest Social Program
106(2)
Even the Best-Laid Plans
108(4)
Illustration 4-1: Social Security--Who Qualifies, and How Much Does Each Receive?
112(6)
Out of the Woods?
113(1)
Achieving Equity in Social Security
114(4)
Unemployment Compensation
118(7)
What Is Unemployment, and Who Gets Counted as Unemployed?
120(3)
Reforming Unemployment Insurance
123(1)
Workers' Compensation
124(1)
Summary
125(2)
Notes
127(4)
5 Helping the "Deserving Poor": Aged, Blind, and Disabled
131(36)
Public Assistance for the Deserving Poor
131(5)
SSI: "Federalizing" Public Assistance
133(1)
How SSI Works
133(2)
Disability Determination
135(1)
Illustration 5-1: Determining SSI Payments for Aged Recipients
136(5)
Recipients, Payments, and Costs of SSI
138(1)
Payments
139(1)
Costs
139(1)
Toward the Future of SSI
140(1)
Rehabilitative Services for Individuals with Disabilities
141(2)
The Vocational Rehabilitation Program
141(1)
Creaming
142(1)
The Era of Civil Rights for People with Disabilities
143(2)
Deinstitutionalization and Normalization
144(1)
Illustration 5-2: Neighbors Pull in the Welcome Mats
145(3)
The Independent Living Movement
147(1)
Illustration 5-3: What Is Reasonable Accommodation for People with Disabilities?
148(4)
A New Bill of Rights for People with Disabilities
149(3)
Children with Disabilities
152(2)
Developmental Disabilities Program
152(1)
Mainstreaming
153(1)
Building a Better Policy on Disability
154(3)
A Fair Definition
154(1)
A Fair Policy
155(2)
General Assistance: The State and Community Response to Welfare
157(2)
Federalism and Social Welfare
159(3)
Summary
162(2)
Notes
164(3)
6 Assisting Poor Families: Aid to Families with Dependent Children
167(40)
The Development of AFDC
167(6)
Mother's Aid
167(1)
Aid to Dependent Children
168(1)
Keeping the Family Together
168(1)
Man-in-the-House Rules
169(1)
Making Parents Pay
170(3)
AFDC and Work
173(1)
Illustration 6-1: What Mothers and Fathers Say About Child Support Enforcement
174(6)
Rehabilitation for Work
177(1)
Job Training and WIN
178(1)
Workfare
179(1)
Illustration 6-2: Three Patterns of AFDC Receipt
180(3)
The JOBS Program
183(3)
Growth of the AFDC Program
186(5)
Number of Recipients
186(1)
Increasing Costs
187(1)
Monthly Payments and the Cost of Living
187(4)
Illustration 6-3: Applying for AFDC
191(1)
What Are AFDC Families Like?
192(2)
Illustration 6-4: Rethinking Welfare
194(3)
Ending Welfare as We Know It
197(5)
Nonwelfare Approaches
197(2)
The Conservative's View
199(1)
Can Clinton Succeed?
200(2)
Summary
202(1)
Notes
203(4)
7 Fighting Hunger: Nutrition Policy and Programs in the United States
207(36)
Malnutrition Amid Plenty
207(2)
Setting Nutritional Policy
209(5)
Commodity Food Distribution
209(1)
A New Food Stamp Program
210(1)
Politics Discovers Hunger
210(1)
Eliminating the Purchase Requirement
211(1)
Politics Rediscovers Hunger
212(2)
The Food Stamp Program Today
214(1)
Illustration 7-1: Remarks from the Hunger Forum, 1993
215(5)
Determining Eligibility
216(2)
Participants and Costs
218(2)
Illustration 7-2: A Client's View of the Food Stamp Program
220(1)
Illustration 7-3: How People Survive on Leftovers
221(1)
Nutrition Programs for Younger, Older, and Disabled Americans
222(6)
Meals for School Children
223(2)
WIC
225(2)
Nutrition for Older Adults
227(1)
More Nutrition Programs
227(1)
Nutritional Politics
228(1)
In Kind or in Cash?
228(1)
Illustration 7-4: The Thrifty Food Plan--How Much Is It Worth?
229(9)
Social Welfare Benefits in the Electronic Age
232(2)
How Much Fraud, Abuse, and Error in Welfare?
234(3)
Who Should Administer Nutrition Programs?
237(1)
Summary
238(1)
Notes
238(5)
8 Improving Health Care: Treating the Nation's Ills
243(38)
Good Health or Medical Attention?
243(2)
Health Care Policy Today
245(5)
Medicaid: Health Care for the Poor
245(5)
Illustration 8-1: Who Can Get Medicaid in Texas?
250(1)
Illustration 8-2: The Medicaid Maze in Texas
251(7)
Medicare: Health Care for Older Americans
254(1)
Medigaps
255(1)
Long-Term Care
256(2)
What Ails Medicine?
258(8)
The Nation's Health Care Bill
259(3)
Diagnosis-Related Groups
262(1)
Controlling Physician Fees
263(2)
Private Health Care--HMOs, PPOs, and Managed Care
265(1)
Illustration 8-3: A Health Care Glossary
266(2)
The Politics of Health Care for All
268(6)
The Health Security Act
270(2)
Competing Proposals
272(2)
Health Care--Some Ethical Dilemmas
274(2)
Summary
276(1)
Notes
277(4)
9 Warring on Poverty: Victories, Defeats, and Stalemates
281(26)
The Curative Strategy--The "War on Poverty"
281(2)
Curative Attempts
282(1)
Kennedy Initiatives
283(1)
LBJ and the Economic Opportunity Act
283(4)
Community Action
284(1)
Youth Education
285(1)
Legal Services
285(1)
More Office of Economic Opportunity Projects
286(1)
The Great Society
287(1)
Politics Overtakes the War on Poverty
287(3)
Illustration 9-1: Middle-Class Demands for Police Likely to Be Legacy of L.A. Riots
290(1)
Can Head Start "Cure" Poverty?
291(3)
Evaluating Head Start
292(1)
Political Reaction
292(1)
Years Later
293(1)
Fueling Employment: Make-Work Versus the Real Thing
294(8)
The Job Training Partnership Act
296(2)
The Clinton Agenda
298(1)
The U.S. Employment Service: Matching Jobs and Workers
299(1)
Will the Minimum Wage Get a Raise?
300(1)
Enterprise and Empowerment Zones
301(1)
More Enterprising Ideas
302(1)
A National Service Program
302(1)
Summary
303(2)
Notes
305(2)
10 Providing Social Services: Help for Children, the Elderly, and People with Mental Illness
307(38)
Social Services in the United States
307(4)
Who Provides Social Services?
308(2)
The Development of Social Services
310(1)
Social Services for People with Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Problems
311(7)
Defining the Problems
311(1)
Estimating Problems and Services
312(2)
Finding Better Prevention and Treatment Approaches
314(1)
Community Mental Health Centers
315(2)
A War on Drugs
317(1)
Toward the Future of ADM Services
318(7)
The Rights of Mental Health Consumers
319(2)
Liberty or Neglect?
321(1)
Too Much Access or Too Little?
322(1)
From Deinstitutionalization to Recriminalization
323(2)
Illustration 10-1: Thirty Years of Shame: The Scandalous Neglect of the Homeless Mentally Ill
325(2)
Child Welfare Policy
327(2)
Discovering Child Abuse
327(2)
Illustration 10-2: Little Mary Ellen
329(6)
Extent of Child Maltreatment
330(1)
Services for Abused and Neglected Children
330(3)
Problems with the System
333(2)
Social Services for Older Americans
335(4)
Summary
339(2)
Notes
341(4)
11 Challenging Social Welfare: Racism and Sexism
345(50)
Gender Inequities
345(11)
The Feminization of Poverty
346(2)
The Wage Gap and Comparable Worth
348(4)
Equal Rights for Women
352(3)
Family Care
355(1)
Illustration 11-1: Gender Police, Juvenile Division
356(9)
Sexual Harassment
358(2)
No Consensus on Abortion Rights
360(4)
Domestic Violence
364(1)
Gay Rights
365(3)
Blacks, Hispanics, and Social Welfare
368(10)
Separate But Not Equal
369(2)
The Civil Rights Act
371(1)
Housing and Racial Discrimination
372(1)
Affirmative Action
373(4)
Voting Rights
377(1)
Native Americans and Social Welfare
378(1)
Illustration 11-2: The Reservation Conditions
379(4)
Immigration and Social Welfare
383(6)
Immigration Policy
383(3)
How Much Immigration?
386(3)
Summary
389(1)
Notes
390(5)
12 Implementing and Evaluating Social Welfare Policy: What Happens after a Law Is Passed
395(31)
The Politics of Implementation
395(8)
Communications
396(2)
Resources
398(2)
Attitudes
400(1)
Bureaucracy
400(3)
Evaluating Social Policy
403(1)
Illustration 12-1: Highlights of E.O. No. 12862: "Setting Customer Standards," September 11, 1993
403(2)
Illustration 12-2: Like a New Drug, Social Programs Are Put to the Test: Use of Controls Helps Put the Science into Social Science
405(4)
Policy Evaluation as a Rational Activity
407(2)
Illustration 12-3: Rational Evaluation: What Questions to Ask
409(7)
The Many Faces of Program Evaluation
410(1)
Public Hearings
411(1)
Site Visits
411(1)
Program Measures
411(1)
Comparison with Professional Standards
411(1)
Formal Research Designs
412(2)
Policy Evaluation as a Political Activity
414(1)
Unclear, Ambiguous Program Goals
414(1)
Symbolic Goals
415(1)
Unhappy Findings
415(1)
Program Interference
415(1)
Illustration 12-4: What to Do if Your Agency's Program Receives a Negative Evaluation
416(2)
Usefulness of Evaluations
416(1)
Evaluation by Whom?
416(1)
Threats to Everyone
417(1)
Politics at Work: Evaluating the Guaranteed Annual Income Experiment
417(1)
Illustration 12-5: Principles of Quick Evaluation
418(3)
Summary
421(1)
Illustration 12-6: Studies Find Drug Program Not Effective (yet high-level supporters argue `it's better to have it than not have it')
422(2)
Notes
424(2)
Name Index426(2)
Subject Index428

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