American Social Welfare Policy

by Howard Jacob Karger, David Stoesz

This best-selling text provides a balanced and comprehensive overview of social welfare policy in the United States while examining cutting-edge issues. Social Welfare Policy; 2008 Election; Proposition 8; Economic issues. Social work and social welfare practitioners and students interested in enhancing their understanding and analysis of social welfare policy.

Genres: Textbooks, Social Work, School, Nonfiction, Grad School

544 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1993

Reviews

[Kelly Reinhart]

This book did a good job of explaining the history of policies in the United States, including a wide variety of topics/social issues. It also did a good job of explaining how to analyse policies. Overall, decent book for understanding policy and for a course text.

[Leah]

Clearly, this book is biased towards the liberal/left perspective, but it does give a great summary of Social Welfare policy in the U.S. and is one textbook that I think all U.S.-based social workers should read. I also think all social workers should be active policy advocates, and should therefore be informed about the history and current state of social welfare policies and practices. That's my opinion and I'm stickin' to it.

[Hope McCormick]

A lot of tone and opinion, but still very informative.

[Zoe]

Onerous presentation of fascinating material.