public welfare

Contains twenty-five essays in which the authors examine issues related to inner-city poverty and debate its causes and possible solutions, and includes personal accounts of life in the inner city.

This book is a collection of articles in which authors debate whether welfare reform is working, whether the Stimulus Bill reverses welfare reform, and whether food stamps have contributed to an overly dependent underclass.

Charles Murray proposes a radical new plan that ends Social Security, Medicare, and all forms of welfare, and instead gives every American age twenty-one and older $10,000 a year for life, and argues that this program could achieve the same goals of the welfare state with less financial impact and greater success.

Examines the economic system in the United States, discusses governmental agencies and regulations, and analyzes current problems.

Examines controversial issues central to the debate over welfare. Features informative text, full-color photographs, a timeline, a glossary, and a list of resources for further study.

Examines controversies surrounding government entitlements, explaining what they are, discussing social security, welfare, unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, and related topics, and encourages students to utilize critical thinking skills to create informed opinions on the issue.

A collection of thirteen essays that explores issues related to welfare, discussing welfare recipients and applicants, human service work, child care, welfare rights and reform, the food stamp program, and other related topics.

Traces the history and evolution of poverty in the United States from colonial times to the early twenty-first century, and includes chronologies, eyewitness testimony, photographs and illustrations, maps, brief biographies of notable people, and excerpts from primary source documents.