social policy

A collection of essays that offer opposing viewpoints on issues related to the family, discussing such topics as adoption, divorce laws, day care, and welfare reform.

A collection of essays, cartoons, thoughts, and poems in which famous Americans say how they would make America a better place.

Presents approximately 150 primary source documents, such as speeches, legislation, memoirs, newspaper articles, and interviews, related to social policy between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.

Reprints sixteen editions of "The CQ Researcher, " published between August 9, 1996 and November 20, 1998, that provide facts and analysis of a wide range of public interest topics; grouped in seven general categories, including education, health care, and social policy.

Readings and discussion questions present conflicting points of view on various aspects of equality in the U.S.

Contains alphabetized articles on approximately 160 social issues in the U.S., describing their histories, major aspects, and debates and controversies, and provides a chronology, further reading list, glossary, and documents with each.

Twenty-seven essays debate issues related to the twenty-first-century American lifestyle, technology, society, and foreign policy, including reliance on oil, genetically engineered foods, hydrogen as an energy source, immigration, education, preemption and unilateralism, relations with Europe, and several others.

Contains twenty-seven essays in which the authors debate issues related to Africa, including the problems faced in the country, the spread of AIDS, the preservation of wild lands, and relief policies and initiatives.

Presents various viewpoints on homelessness, addressing whether it is a serious problem, what causes it, whether and which housing policies will benefit the homeless, and which policies will reduce homelessness.