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Americans believe economic opportunity is as fundamental a right as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. More concerned about a level playing ...
The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law
Work over Welfare tells the inside story of the legislation that ended "welfare as we know it." As a key staffer on the House Ways and Means Committee...
Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries
"Presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respec...
An Introduction
This book traces the historical development of social policy analysis, emphasizing the factors that promoted its development, the need for social poli...
Congress must reauthorize the sweeping 1996 welfare reform legislation by October 1, 2002. A number of issues that were prominent in the 1995-96 battl...
Using Research to Improve Policy and Practice
The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is the first nationally representative study of children who have been reported to auth...
Improving Federal Programs for Low-Income Americans
This is an edited volume reviewing the major means-tested social programs in the United States. Each author addresses a major program or area, reviewi...
Obama's Fight for Rigor and Results in Social Policy
The first comprehensive history of the Obama administration's evidence-based initiatives. From its earliest days, the Obama administration planned and...
Marriage and Child Wellbeing
This second volume of The Future of Children examines family formation and child well being, with a particular focus on marriage. The authors look at ...
This volume examines parent programs in the context of policy to support families, the disjunction between advocates of parent programs and federal po...
Policy, Politicis and Social Science
Focusing on the application of research in the social sciences to public policymaking in the U.S., this test explores national health policy, inner-ci...
T hree decades of research has shown that parent training can improve developmental outcomes for children. Recent research suggests that parent traini...
Teacher, Equity and Indicators
This volume discusses teacher training, pay and incentives, equity and diversity among the student population, and the use of indicators to assess edu...