Presents a compilation of primary and secondary source materials, including graphs, quotes, articles, and charts, that provide information about social welfare in the United States, covering national spending on welfare, welfare reform legislation, poverty, and other topics.

Discusses the origins of federal welfare in the U.S. and its effects on society, the policy changes it has undergone, new reforms of the 1990s, strategies and key players in the debate, and challenges that confront resolution of the issue.

Combining personal memoir and reflective scholarship, Sennett examines need, social responsibility, and inequality within the context of social welfare systems and discusses three modern codes of respect--make something of yourself, take care of yourself, help others--and ways in which the concrete application of these three principles in the welfare system might increase mutual respect between the parties (doctors and patients, the managers and residents...

Eminent scholar Lane Kenworthy shows that, despite fierce political debates and pretensions to exceptionalism, the US is well along the path toward becoming a social democratic society.

Presents a collection of thirty essays that deal with social services for the poor, and addresses such issues as food stamps, Medicaid, welfare reform, housing and disability, and more.

In Glasgow, police discover in bushes a corpse minus head and hands. It is of a woman who has been dead for six months and she is identified as Pam McArthur, a social worker. She was also a busybody, which led her to uncover a scandal involving a local notable. He hired some men to take care of her and now Sergeant Ray Sussock sets out to take care of him. By the author of London Day Monday.

Presents discussion and debate on the topic of poverty in the United States of America (including hunger, the lack of health insurance for the poor, homelessness, unwed mothers, substance abuse, housing discrimination, government programs to assist the poor), as well as global poverty (including terrorism, globalization, overpopulation, world hunger.)