Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy by Gardenia Harris, Bernard... - 9780742559509

Dynamics of Social Welfare PolicyRight versus Left\nAuthor(s): Gardenia Harris, Bernard Ivan Tamas, Nancy S. Lind\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9780742559509, 978-0742559509\nSynopsis\nThis book examines ten key issuespoverty, housing, taxation and the economy, child welfare, education, health, criminal justice, civil rights, and global issuesconfronting social work professionals and places them in their larger context. The introduction to each issue identifies its genesis or the reasons that the issue became a dominant theme in the policymaking agendas of Congress. The second and third sections of each issue provide actual arguments written and spoken by elected officials, both in the [url] Congress and the Presidency, representing liberal versus conservative viewpoints on the issues. By providing the actual text of the arguments and refraining from interpreting and biasing the political viewpoint.