Urban Homesteading

Mittie Olion Chandler

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• The concept of homesteading is historically rooted in the efforts of the 1860s that contributed to the settlement of the western United States. As a m... Lees meer

Using Computers to Combat Welfare Fraud

David H Greenberg, Douglas Wolf, Jennifer Pfiester

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• In this study, David Greenberg and Douglas Wolf describe, systematize, and evaluate the cost effectiveness of computerized anti-fraud procedures in pu... Lees meer

Welfare System Reform

Edward T. Jennings, Neal S. Zank

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• The nation's $200 billion public assistance system is a fragmented array of policies, programs, and organizations that often serves its clients poorly... Lees meer

The New Immigration

Leif Jensen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• Lofty sentiments notwithstanding, the United States has consistently sought to exclude impoverished immigrants from entering the country on the ground... Lees meer

Social Security and Individual Equity

Charles W Meyer, Nancy Wolff

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• The compulsory nature of social security makes it possible for income to be distributed within and across beneficiary cohorts. Focusing on the Federal... Lees meer

Refugee Aid and Development

Robert F. Gorman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• This expert study shows how refugee aid and development enterprises should be linked in order to truly help the 16 million refugees today, the tens of... Lees meer

No Longer Disabled

Susan Mezey

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• This book focuses on the Reagan administration's broad attempt from 1980 to 1984 to strike thousands of Social Security disability recipients from gov... Lees meer

Inmates and Their Wives

Bonnie E Carlson, Neil Cervera

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date study of how inmates and their wives cope with incarceration and to what extent conjugal visit programs... Lees meer

Social Work

Leslie Leighninger

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• Leslie Leighninger fills an important gap in the social work literature with her in-depth examination of the development of social work as a professio... Lees meer

Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy

Vicky N Albert

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• A pioneering contribution to the literature, this book studies welfare dependence among families eligible for assistance under Aid to Families with De... Lees meer

Legal Services for the Poor

Mark Kessler

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• Nearly 200 interviews with legal services lawyers and administrators, bar association officers, judges, and political officials form the basis for thi... Lees meer

Rural Poverty

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• This volume takes the unexplored and timely approach of studying the differences between the rural and urban poor. The studies presented conclude that... Lees meer

Still Hungry After All These Years

Ardith Maney

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs
• In the 1980s, record numbers of Americans have qualified for food stamps and food aid in other forms, despite increasingly rigid standards of eligibil... Lees meer