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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... farms started to grow , farm tenancy , al- ready prevalent in the South , began to spread to the Midwest . In 1900 , 35 percent of the nation's farms were tenant operated ; by 1930 , this had risen to 42 percent . For black farmers in ...
... farm commodities . At first the problem seemed part of the general economic recession that plagued the country ... farm income dropped to $ 2.5 billion in 1932 , less than one - half of total farm income in 1919.22 In- dividual farm ...
... farms that were fully owned rose from 17 to 23 in the same pe- riod.27 Farm ownership was accompanied by a steady increase in farm size - from an average of 150.7 acres in 1930 to an average of 167.1 acres in 1940.28 Growth in farm ...