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The Promise of Welfare Reform
Presents articles from 23 community practitioners and researchers who challenge the "reform" that has turned public aid from a right to a privilege.
Poverty and Inequality in the Latin American-U.S. Borderlands
Examines the implications of economic, social, political or military US interventions on four of its Latin American bordering countries. Covers the Guatemalan counterinsurgent State, Mexico's Progresa programme for poverty reduction, US military presence in Puerto Rico, survival strategies of Cuban mothers, and emerging rural poverty as a result of programmes for environmental protection and economic aid near the Mexican Dalakmul Biosphere Reserve.
Rediscovering the Other America
This vital book examines recent research on poverty and inequality, identifies strategies for ensuring adequate services, and challenges many of the inaccurate beliefs that were used to justify welfare reform legislation in 1996. You'll find up-to-date information on various marginalized groups and their social problems, including lack of health coverage for women with mental health, substance abuse, and domestic violence problems. In addition, you'll find data on the health coverage situation for the poor, for Appalachians, and for women in general. Finally, Rediscovering the Other America: The Continuing Crisis of Poverty and Inequality in the United States suggests strategies for changing public perceptions about the nature of poverty and the poor.
Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities
Aimed primarily at social service providers to American Indians, eight essays convey how historical inequality shapes indigenous experience of current issues: welfare reform, economic development through gaming, domestic violence, barriers to health care, and the need to interpret minority narratives from a strength as vs. deficit view. Co- published simultaneously as Journal of Poverty, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1998. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Latino Poverty in the New Century
Understand the social factors that challenge this fast-growing community! The Latino community will soon be the largest minority population in the United States. Although Hispanics have been part of the American scene since before independence, their issues have only recently drawn the attention of the mainstream. Latino Poverty in the New Century takes a clear look at the reasons why poverty and inequality are still major concerns for Hispanic citizens and residents. This keen analysis examines how apparently neutral, even well-meaning social and educational policies can have a devastating effect. The interlocking consequences of language problems, educational problems, gangs, poverty, and ...
Rediscovering the Other America
Learn why it is imperative to bring a progressive focus back to social welfare policy! This vital book explores recent research on poverty and inequality, identifies strategies for ensuring adequate services, and challenges many of the inaccurate beliefs that were used to justify welfare reform legislation in 1996. You'll find up-to-date information on various marginalized groups and their social problems, including lack of health coverage for women with mental health, substance abuse, and domestic violence problems. In addition, you'll find data on the health coverage situation for the poor, for Appalachians, and for women in general. Finally, Rediscovering the Other America: The Continuing...
Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities
A much-needed, indispensable volume for anyone involved in the social services or human services field, Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities supplies you with vital information that will assist you in offering culturally sensitive services to your clients. You will gain a new perspective from the blending of traditional academic research with the voices of those most intimately affected. From Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities, you will learn proven methods that will help you offer successful and effective services to your Native American clients. Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities reveals the stark realities faci...
Policy Analysis and Research Technology
This book examines policy analysis and research technology within the framework of the context and purposes of research. The authors analyze the relations between intervention, inquiry, and the larger social-political context. Stressing values and ethics, curriculum integration, and emphasis on groups at risk, they present an analysis of social, political, cultural, and economic issues that transcends research methodology.
