United States Welfare Policy: A Catholic Response

by Thomas J. Massaro

Book Overview

The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 drastically changed the delivery of social services in the United States for the first time in sixty years. More than a decade later, according to Catholic social ethicist Thomas Massaro, a disturbing gap exists between the laws we have enacted as a nation and the moral concerns we profess as a people. Massaro contends that ethicists too often focus on strictly theoretical concerns rather than engaging concrete social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589011562
• ISBN13: 9781589011564
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher