American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise productive peop

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The first new social work history to be written in over twenty years, Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States presents a history of

This book examines the conceptual, historical and practical implications that various social policies in the United States have had on ethnic minorities.

This third edition deploys its distinctive model of how policies develop to include an analysis of the social policy initiatives of the Obama administration. Wi