Social Welfare Policy: Responding to a Changing World, Second Edition is a topical, comprehensive introduction to social welfare policy. It uses a contemporary framework that explicitly addresses three forces that have redefined the social policy arena: the growth of the information economy, the rise of globalization, and our current environmental crisis. This framework is applied to the six traditional arenas of policy--child and family services, health and mental health, poverty and inequality, housing and community development, crime and violence, and aging, and explores how to find solutions to both long enduring and brand new problems. John G. McNutt and Richard Hoefer's introductory text represents a move forward in social welfare policy thinking that is built on the latest scholarship and teaches students that the time to create social policies for the future is in the present.

McNutt and Hoefer’s book is designed to be brief, yet comprehensive, and this engaging video content, accessible on any mobile device, has been included to offer more in-depth coverage of additional ideas and concepts. Click on each video to see a description of how the content fits into the text.

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    1. “The Great Migration” supplements the first of three history chapters by covering the migration of 6 million African Americans from the south to the north.

    1. “Hull House and the Settlement Home Movement” enhances Chapter 3’s discussion of private charity and industrialization by offering thorough detail on settlement houses and their workers.

    1. “The Bad Old Days: Life in the 19th & 20th Centuries” expands Social Welfare Policy’s third history chapter by describing the working and living conditions in the early 19th and 20th centuries.

    1. “Poverty Myths: Exposed” adds the important discussion of poverty to the values, ideology, and philosophy of policy and prepares students for further discussion of this topic in Chapter 9.

    1. “The EITC: Anti-Poverty Rock Star” offers an illustration of a policy model to accompany the book’s introduction to policy analysis.

About this course

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  • 15 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content