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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... individual failures . In such circumstances , the approach to the poor and to poverty issues is by way of reme- dial , residual programs aimed at uplifting the failures , at changing them to look like the rest of us . On the other hand ...
... individual as a family member or on the individual family as a unit . When a family was in trouble , the concern was to save its potentially productive members . Hence , there developed such social welfare measures as farming out ...
... individual's impairment or combination of impairments ( other than medical improvement which is not related to the individual's abil- ity to work ) , and ( B ) ( i ) the individual is now able to engage in substantial gainful activity ...