Issues for Debate in Social Policy

Issues for Debate in Social Policy is a timely supplement for courses in Social Policy. Each article gives substantial background and analysis of a particular issue as well as useful pedagogical features to inspire critical thinking and to help students grasp and review key material.

Topics include:

•Women's Rights

•Middle Class Squeeze

•Vanishing Jobs

•Race and Politics

•Domestic Poverty

•Welfare Reform

•Hunger in America

•Social Security Reform

•Child Welfare Reform

•Wounded Veterans

•Universal Coverage

•Ending Homelessness

•Mortgage Crisis

•Caring for the Elderly

•Aging Baby Boomers

•Gender Pay Gap

•The Obama Presidency.