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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... veterans . The entitlements of World War I veterans influenced politics during the 1920s and dramatized the nation's problems during the early years of the Great Depression . In the late nineteenth century , the federal government had ...
... veterans who could not resume prewar occupations The close of the war , on November 11 , 1918 , compelled further consideration of veterans ' benefits . Not only had an enormous number of Americans served in the armed forces , but a ...
... veterans : Veterans and their families will eventually be a majority of the population of the United States . Veterans in modern times are better off economically than nonveter- ans in similar age groups . 52 The 1956 commission pointed ...