public welfare

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.