Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy: Right versus Left

by Bernard Ivan Tamas, Gardenia Harris, Nancy S. Lind

Book Overview

This book examines ten key issues--poverty, housing, taxation and the economy, child welfare, education, health, criminal justice, civil rights, and global issues--confronting social work professionals and places them in their larger context. The introduction to each issue identifies its genesis or the reasons that the issue became a dominant theme in the policymaking agendas of Congress. The second and third sections of each issue provide actual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742559505
• ISBN13: 9780742559509
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.8"