Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families: Policy and Practice Implications

The coming boom in the population of the aging will impact families at several levels. Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families: Policy and Practice Implications explores this trend, presenting the latest original research on the changing roles of caregivers along with the economic and emotional effects on the family unit. Respected authorities discuss in detail long-term care and the standard of living of families, with a focus on the effects of changing family structures on families themselves and society at large. Detailed tables provide clarity of thought while comprehensive bibliographies offer further opportunity for study.

Caputo, Richard K.

Peterson, Gary W.

Steinmetz, Suzanne

Parenting & Relationships

Routledge

Welfare and freedom American style: The role of the federal government, 1900-1940 (Federal responses to people in need) (Vol 1)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

University Press of America

This book traces the changing role of the Federal Government in the economy and society between 1941 and 1980. The author examines the interplay between traditional American values and the development of the American welfare state. Caputo also analyzes in part how the government justified the use of fiscal policy to bring about improved economic conditions benefiting the country as a whole as well as on the ideal of equal employment opportunity benefiting targeted groups such as black Americans and women. Contents: Introduction; Years of Roosevelt, Years of Truman; The Eisenhower Years; Social Change and the Early Sixties: Kennedy's Cautious Activism; Social Change in the Mid-to-Late Sixties: The Johnson Years; Johnson's Declaration of War on Poverty: The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; The Would-Be Liberal Conservative: Nixon's First Term; The New Federalism and Welfare Reform: Nixon's Family Assistance Plan; Eclipsing the Liberal Mandate for Federal Activism: The Political Economy and Cultural Conflicts of the 1970s; Reagan Triumphant: The Election of 1980 and the Conservative Mandate; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Welfare and Freedom American Style: the Role of the Federal Government, 1941-1980 (Federal Responses to People in Need)

Aimed at human services managers and students of administration, this highly challenging book demonstrates how computer use and information systems can alter the bases of power and decision-making authority as they currently exist in an organization. Author Richard Caputo explores the changes in the availability, nature, and use of information that have had important implications not only for administrators but for direct service professionals as well. Management and Information Systems in Human Services examines the kinds of organizational problems likely to result from the implementation of automated information systems and identifies effective solutions. It will further challenge your thinking by elaborating the operational premises that the distribution of the “decision load” reflects the organizational structure of an agency and that the introduction of an information system in any organization challenges the legitimacy upon which that structure rests. This important textbook is an ideal core or supplementary text for students in the human services, including education, social welfare, public administration, and public policy programs.

Management and Information Systems in Human Services: Implications for the Distribution of Authority and Decision Making (HAWORTH SERIES IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE)

Business & Money

Munson, Carlton

Management & Leadership

U. S. Social Welfare Reform examines pivotal changes in social welfare for low-income families in the United States between 1981, the advent of the Reagan administration, and 2008, the end of the G.W. Bush administration. It focuses on the change from the Federal-state open entitlement Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program to the time-limited state run Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program which Congress authorized with passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. The book also focuses on the development of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program, enacted in 1975 against the backdrop of failed efforts to nationalize AFDC which aimed at providing a basic income to all poor families, but which blossomed with continued bipartisan support in the 1990s. This book also explores alternative strategies to assist low-income families, including job training programs. It present original research on the educational and economic well-being of youth from low-income families who participated in government sponsored job training programs in the late 1970 and early 1980s. The book seeks a middle ground between general and technical social policy texts. It provides more depth than is available in the more general social policy texts. Further, while the more comprehensive texts often rely on government documents and reports relying on Current Population Survey data to profile program use, this book relies on panel data from the National Longitudinal Surveys and presents original research that builds upon prior related research and scholarship about the role of the federal government in social welfare provisioning in general and AFDC/TANF and EITC use in particular and on school-to-work transition programs. It presents related technical material in a narrative style better suited to professionals and policy makers who may lack expertise in quantitative analysis.

U.S. Social Welfare Reform: Policy Transitions from 1981 to the Present (International Series on Consumer Science)

Springer

Policy Analysis for Social Workers offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to understanding the process of policy development and analysis for effective advocacy. This user-friendly model helps students get excited about understanding

Policy Analysis for Social Workers (Social Work in the New Century)

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

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