Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World (FAIR COND) Underlining + Highlighting
** LOTS OF UNDERLINING AND HIGHLIGHTING SEE PICTURES **Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World is an approachable and reader-friendly text that links policy and practice and employs a critical analytic lens to U.S. social welfare policy. With particular attention to disparities based on class, race/ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation and gender, authors Shannon R. Lane, Elizabeth Palley, and Corey Shdaimah assess the impact of policies at the micro, meso, and macro levels. The authors provide readers with a brief foundation in history, the policy process, and theory, while primarily focusing on helping readers recognize the plenty of ways that policy affects their lives and the lives of their clients and communities. Connecting description, theoretical analysis, and advocacy, this fresh text challenges readers to examine the development, consequences, and future implications of core policies.