American Social Welfare

This book investigates the strange phenomenon, where the American working class has consistently rejected for over one hundred years, governmental social programs which would almost certainly improve the quality of their lives.

This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor.

This audiobook is about the development of the American social welfare state, from FDR to LBJ, with particular emphasis on the ideas (social, political, and economic) that have formed the basis of America's social welfare state.

This book is an imagined discussion about the American Welfare State with one of America's most storied liberals, John Kenneth Galbraith.

Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the US welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.

An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on...

"She Was My Queen Until Welfare Took Her Crown" is not just a book—it is a cry from the soul, a warning, and a call to rise. With fiery passion and unflinching honesty, Dr. Joseph Ejike Ojih paints a gripping picture of how government systems designed to provide relief ended up dethroning queens, disempowering kings, and leaving families fractured. The pages confront a painful truth: welfare dependency has too often replaced dignity with despair, and survival with chains of control. Yet this is not a story of defeat—it is one of resilience, love, and hope. Dr. Ojih speaks of Black women...

This book is the second part of three parts on the development of the American social welfare state from 1933 to 2016. This volume is focused on the action (or inaction) toward a comprehensive social welfare state during the American presidential administrations of Richard Nixon to Barack Obama (until January 2016). This volume is concentrated mainly on American economic philosophy, in particular the common misperceptions around the term neoliberalism.

WILL AN OLD LOVE MAKE IT THIS TIME AROUND? Despite her prestigious professional role, Allontis Baxter’s private life is in shambles. She’s just broken up with her no-good boyfriend, her adopted mother figure is dying in the hospital and now she’s been turned down in an attempt to adopt a child of her own. Plus, Allontis’s old flame Cole Parker has returned to their hometown from New York City, causing her dilemmas to multiply as old feelings are rekindled. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A FAMILY? When a series of chance encounters at work fling her into the middle of a mysterious scandal, ...

This book is an investigation of the development of the American social welfare state from 1933 to 1969.

This book investigates the thesis that despite America lacking a world-leading welfare state, America and its cultural desire for individual immortality may give Americans more psychological benefits than Europeans get in their welfare states.

This book is the fourth volume of a study on the development of the American social welfare state since 1934. This volume covers the first two years of the administration of President Donald Trump and the rise of the Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders and what it means for any further development of America's social welfare state.