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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... early as 1647 , at the first session of its colonial legislature , Rhode Island an- nounced the Elizabethan Poor Law principles that stressed , most importantly , public responsibility for relief for the poor who could not work , and ...
... early twentieth century was strongly influenced by the veterans of two wars . Most men who had fought in the Civil War had reached retirement age by the early years of the century , and their economic needs were a major domestic policy ...
... early 1990s was cost , not so much for the federal government , but for the states . In reality , the federal government spent $ 20 billion on AFDC in its peak year , less than 2 percent of the federal budget of over $ 1 trillion in the ...