Welfare & Benefit Systems

In a time of record-setting deficits and concern over burgeoning debt, perhaps no single issue is more hotly debated than how to fix Social Securit...

This is a unique and timely survey of the evolving priorities of the British welfare state since its inception in the late 1940s, with an emphasis ...

Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is p...

Preface This book is written for those who do not yet share a Green world view, but who do have stirrings of unease that we are not looking after t...

Fundamental questions about the morality of pediatric medical research persist despite years of debate and the establishment of strict codes of eth...

A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR A LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR ...

'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Gu...

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began ...

First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about pove...

Reg Pengelly has gained considerable experience of managing arrangements to safeguard children in both the police service and the NHS. This short ...

Imtiaz Sooliman, a medical doctor practising in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, visited a Shaikh in Istanbul in 1992. The Sufi teacher gave him a m...

Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term str...

With $812 billion in benefit outlays in 2013, Social Security is the largest program in the federal budget. It provides monthly cash benefits to re...

The Medicaid program marked its 50th anniversary on July 30, 2015. The joint federal-state program has grown to be one of the largest sources of he...

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant helps states fund, among other benefits and services, cash assistance for needy fami...

The Social Security program pays benefits to retired and disabled workers and their family members, and to family members of deceased workers. The ...

Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives ...

Introduction and conclusion available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deployin...

What are the challenges facing social welfare in America? Theories of stakeholders, the policy process, electoral politics, the precariat, child we...

The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised,...

Problems confronting the financial-industrial system, or the ills of the casino economy, have never been more urgent than they are today. This is b...

This volume deals with one of the most understudied aspects of everyday life in Russian society. Its main heroes are the providers of goods and ser...

The politics and policies that led to America's expansion of the penal system and reduction of welfare programs In 1970s America, politicians bega...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the wisest and most p...

The New Structural Social Work presents a coherent and consistent theory of progressive social work. With oppression as its central focus, the text...

Social Security auxiliary benefits were established in 1939 when Congress extended benefits to the dependents and survivors of workers covered by S...

Congress continues to register concern about the rapid rise in Medicare spending and the ability of existing funding mechanisms to support the prog...

In nearly all States, adoption records are sealed and withheld from public inspection after an adoption is finalised. This book discusses state law...

This book provides an overview of the current Social Security special minimum benefit provision workings; explains how the Retirement Earnings Test...

International Social Security agreements are bilateral agreements primarily intended to eliminate dual Social Security taxation based on the same w...

Learn about Social Security and plan for your future with the help of this comprehensive and accessible guide to everything you need to know about ...