Understanding Social Problems, Policies and Programs (Social Problems & Social Issues) - Softcover

Ginsberg, Leon H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570032661 ISBN 13: 9781570032660

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 1998

Synopsis

Leon Ginsberg brings the reader up to date on social welfare policy in America though the 1990s, explaining developments that have taken place during the Clinton administration - in particular, those encapsulated in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.

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Review

The importance of this book is that there is nothing else quite like it - a text that attempts to lay and define the field of social policy. - David P. Fauri, Virginia Commonwealth University

About the Author

Ginsberg: (Columbia, SC) Dean of the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina. Past president of American Public Human Services Association. Former social policy chair of the Child Welfare League of America. Miller Cribbs: (Columbia, SC) Assistant professor in the College of Social Work and an affiliated faculty member of the Women's Studies Program at the University of South Carolina.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1570032661
• ISBN 13: 9781570032660
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 288