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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Social Welfare Policy"”.
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Social services and twentieth century social welfare policy
In 1962 Congress enacted legislation which made social services an important instrument of public welfare reform. The law represented the culmination of a half-century effort on the part of public welfare officials to secure recognition for public social services as a distinctive yet integral …
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Towards a model for social welfare policy formulation in KwaZulu
… taken into consideration in the formulation of Social Welfare Policy. The Structure in the Government service is such that Policy's are formulated by top management. Top management in the Government Service is constituted by the Ministry. When the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly sits the Minister …
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Local Commitment to JOBS
… level of commitment from local departments of social services, area businesses, and community organizations to the implementation of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program. It contends that such a commitment is a necessary pre-condition for JOBS to ever be successful. It then …
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A critical examination of the concept of welfare dependency : its assumptions, underlying values and manifistation in social policy, internationally and in South Africa
Concern over "welfare dependency" has featured prominently in the public discoursearound social assistance programmes in numerous countries for many years. The notionthat social assistance payments tend to sap the recipient's initiative, independence andpropensity for securing paid employment is …
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A critical examination of the concept of welfare dependency: its assumptions, underlying values and manifestation in social policy, internationally and in South Africa
… 81 missing, page 97 duplicated] Concern over "welfare dependency" has featured prominently in the public discourse around social assistance programmes in numerous countries for many years. The notion that social assistance payments tend to sap the recipient's initiative, independence and …
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Comunidades remanescentes de quilombos em Macapá : mapeamento dos resultados da Política de Assistência Social
… solid foundation in civil rights, political and social, marking a greatly expanded role of collective rights: rights relating to gender, racial and ethnic minorities. Among the new collective subjects of rights affirmed in the Magna Carta, the Provisions Act (ADCT) makes reference to the …
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Exploring Narratives of Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse
… theoretical framework and implications for social welfare, policy, practice and future research are discussed.</p>
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Intersections of Welfare and Child Welfare Systems and Single Mothers' Activism in the U.S.
… of single mothers involved with child welfare services and mothers activism against child welfare services, in order to more deeply understand the intersections between and meanings of the welfare and child welfare systems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the U.S. This study had two research …
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Bankruptcy and politics: a framework for bankruptcy policymaking in the united states congress and courts
… major change in the direction of U.S. bankruptcy policy. The dissertation uses the law's passage as a vehicle to develop an explicit model of the integrated role of Congress, issue networks, and the courts in making policy. Following Baumgartner and Jones (1993), Sabatier (1988), and others, the …
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Saving Salt City: Fighting Inequality Through Policy and Activism in Syracuse, NY, 1955-1975
<p>"Saving Salt City: Fighting Inequality through Policy and Activism in Syracuse, NY, 1955-1975" offers an in-depth exploration of civil rights and antipoverty struggles in the Salt City between 1955 and 1975. It centers the agency of activists who built interracial and cross-class organizations …
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The Provision of Women's Social Welfare Needs in Jordan: Why the State has failed
… question as to how, and to what extent, women’s social welfare needs are provided for in Jordan. Using a liberal feminist approach to social welfare policy, and acknowledging the role played by the specific historical and political experiences of states in the developing world, the thesis …
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Social work's contribution in promoting social and economic equality : a Namibian case study
… the majority of its people from accessing social and economic benefits. Since the social work profession is grounded in upholding human rights and social justice, social workers can significantly contribute to promote social and economic equality. The goal of the study was to determine …
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The political-economics of privatizing mental health: A study of the relationships between ownership of mental health clinics with professional advocacy and client creaming
… legal ownership of the clinics. Implications for social welfare policy and recommendations for further research are offered.
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Examining Immigrant Experiences in Asset Building: Implications for Asset-Based Policies
… immigrants has long interested researchers and policymakers, with late but now growing attention on their asset- and wealth-building. Current research on immigrants’ asset building has largely focused on their individual-level characteristics, and not much on opportunities and constraints …
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Taxes, Welfare and Democratic Discourse: Mainstream Media Coverage and the Rise of the American New Right
… media can shape mass opinion on specific public policy issues in politically consequential ways. However, systematic and critical empirical analysis of the ideological diversity of such news coverage is rare. Scholars have also illuminated how and why U.S. economic and social welfare policy has …
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Women, welfare and the nurturing of Afrikaner nationalism : a social history of the Afrikaanse Christelike Vroue Vereniging, c.1870-1939
… of 'poor whites' by focusing specifically on social welfare work. One particular concern was the danger that women working together with blacks posed for the volk. Research on the ACVV's philanthropy is complemented by a study of the lives of landless and impoverished whites in the Cape …
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The politics of needs interpretation : a study of three CJS-funded job-entry programs for women
… skills, and a program which trained women on social assistance to enter the construction trades. The work of the staff in these programs was considered in light of a theoretical framework developed by Nancy Fraser. Fraser has called for a different approach -- a more critical …
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The association between housing insecurity and TANF participation: Investigating the role of family resources and stressors
… Clearly, this leaves a sizeable gap in the social safety net that housing-insecure families must strive to fill with other sources. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one such resource that impoverished families can use to help secure housing and other needs. However, there is …
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Three Essays on U.S. Social Policy’s Impact on the Human Capital Development of Young Adults At-Risk of Poverty
<p>Social welfare programs and policies can have a variety of anticipated and unexpected effects on the human capital investments of young adults at-risk of living in poverty in the United States. My dissertation investigates how three large-scale public programs – means-tested, cash welfare (e.g., …