Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need"Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need, Sixth Edition" describes and analyzes the ideas that have shaped the history of social welfare from the Colonial Period to the present day. Using original documents from each respective period through the current Bush Administration, this classic text examines the history of events and ideas that have shaped American social welfare policy. Coverage of economic developments, the impact of voluntarism, the impact of privatization helps students to understand the context of social welfare movements and policies, while material on trends in the justice system include the immigration debate New To This Edition
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... security , the delegates were also treated to Ewan Clague's de- scription of the potentialities of the provisions of the Social Security Act.94 Perhaps because it did join , no matter how uneasily , new social insurance and old public ...
... Social Work Year Book : 1937 ( New York : Russell Sage Foundation , 1937 ) ... Security ( Washington , D.C .: January 15 , 1935 ) , p . 25 . 73. Ibid . , p ... Social Security Act , A Memorandum on the History of the Committee on Economic ...
... Social Security faced a new challenge : the interests of the financial services industry . The major conservative proposal for " privatizing ” Social Security was to allow individuals to create their own retirement account in lieu of ...