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| All chapters conclude with ldquo;Summaryrdquo; and ldquo;Notes.rdquo; | |
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| Preface | |
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| Politics, Rationalism, and Social Welfare | |
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| Politics and Social Welfare Policy | |
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| Special Tips for the Legislative Process | |
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| The Policymaking Process | |
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| The American Public and Social Welfare | |
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| We Can Take Care of Our Own...or Can We? | |
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| Government and Social Welfare | |
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| Historical Perspectives on Social Welfare | |
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| The Revolution No One Noticed | |
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| The Expansion of Social Welfare | |
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| Finances in the Welfare State | |
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| Intelligence Report: Our Low Taxes | |
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| The Legacy of ldquo;Reaganomics.rdquo; | |
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| Helping the ldquo;Truly Needy.rdquo; | |
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| The Presidential Years of Bill Clinton | |
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| Defining Poverty: Where to Begin? | |
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| What Is Poverty? | |
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| Poor and Homeless: Not Invisible Anymore | |
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| Homeless in Paradise | |
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| Pam Jackson''s New Apartment | |
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| A Fundamental Shift | |
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| Preventing Poverty: The Social Insurance Programs | |
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| Preventing Poverty through Compulsory Savings | |
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| Social Securityndash | |
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| Who Qualifies, and How Much Do Beneficiaries Receive? | |
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| Will You Reap What You Sow? | |
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| Unemployment Compensation. Workers'' Compensation | |
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| Helping the ldquo;Deserving Poorrdquo;: Aged, Blind, and Disabled | |
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| Public Assistance for the Deserving Poor | |
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| Example of What Happens When You Are Disabled | |
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| Rehabilitative Services for Individuals with Disabilities | |
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| The Era of Civil Rights for People with Disabilities | |
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| What Is Reasonable Accommodation for People with Disabilities? | |
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| Disability Policy for Children | |
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| Building a Better Policy on Disability | |
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| Guidance from the EEOC in Implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act in Cases of Psychiatric Impairment | |
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| General Assistance: The State and Community Response to Welfare | |
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| Federalism and Social Welfare | |
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| Ending Welfare as We Knew It: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | |
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| From Mothers'' Aid to AFDC | |
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| Trying to Make Parents Pay | |
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| Welfare and Work | |
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| What Mothers and Fathers Think about Child Support Enforcement | |
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| Why the Fuss about AFDC? | |
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| Why Mother Slapped Me | |
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| The Unreported Work of Mothers Receiving Public Assistance | |
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| An End to Welfare as We Knew It | |
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| Fighting Hunger: Nutrition Policy and Programs in the United States | |
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| Malnutrition Amid Plenty | |
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| Setting Nutritional Policy | |
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| Tightening Food Stamps'' Belt: The Welfare Reform of 1996 | |
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| Food Stamp Program Operations | |
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| Nutrition Programs for Younger, Older, and Disabled Veterans | |
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| A Client''s View of the Food Stamp Program | |
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| Nutritional Politics | |
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| The Thrifty Food Planndash | |
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| How Much Is It Worth? | |
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| Improving Health Care: Treating the Nation''s Ills | |
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| Good Health or Medical Attention? | |
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| Health Care Policy Today | |
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| What Ails Medicine? | |
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| A Proposed Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities | |
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| The Politics of Health Care for All | |
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| Health Carendash;Some Ethical Dilemmas | |
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| Changing Paradigms in the Poverty Wars: Victories, Defeats, and Stalemates | |
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| The Curative Strategy in the 1960s War on Poverty | |
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| Community Development: A Foundation Perspective | |
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| LBJ and the Economic Opportunity Act | |
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| Politics Overtake the War on Poverty | |
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| Why Hasn''t Head Start ldquo;Curedrdquo; Poverty? | |
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| Fueling Employment: Make-Work versus the Real Thing | |
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| Report Card on Empowerment Zones | |
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| Building Communities through Service | |
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| Providing Social Services: Help for Children, the Elderly, and People with Mental Illness | |
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| Social Services in the United States | |
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| Social Services for People with ADM Problems | |
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| The Rights of Mental Health Service Consumers | |
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| Needle-Exchange Programs in the U.S.A.: Time to Act Now | |
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| Child Welfare Policy | |
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| What to Do about Helping People with Severe Mental Illness | |
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| Little Mary Ellen | |
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| Social Services for Older Americans | |
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| Challenging Social Welfare: Racism and Sexism. <P | |