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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... cause has been steadily and powerfully operating to increase the poor rates . . . . I mean the rapid and oppressive ... causes of poverty were to be found in individual character flaws and in organiza- tions that encouraged and promoted ...
... Cause of Causes . The box of Pandora is realized in each of the kegs of ardent spirits that stand upon the counters of the 1600 * licensed grocers of this city . At a moderate computation , the money spent in the purchase of spirituous ...
... cause of poverty , especially pitiful because of its pain and waste , and very costly to society because the poverty is apt to increase in geometrical progression , two - fold , four - fold , or even more in each generation , as the ...