The National Government and Social Welfare: What Should Be the Federal Role

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The changing economic conditions of the 1990s now demand a review of the framework and adaptation to conditions currently prevailing in the government's role in social welfare. Recognizing that the national political leadership no longer was willing to support all of the public programs and benefits that it had initiated in the past 50 years, the authors assume that a downsizing of the national government's role in social welfare will occur. This volume explores how downsizing will affect the private sector, nonprofit organizations, families, and individuals, while including specific recommendations and suggestions on how social welfare programs can be reformed or modified.

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Clothbound represents a significant effort toward crystallizing diverse perspectives on this issue. Thirteen powerful chapters were assembled to provide the reader with pertinent contemporary approaches for re-thinking the level of Federal government participation in social welfare policy development and delivery systems. Robert Lerman provides a particularly interesting economic perspective by arguing that the Federal government should support social welfare policy....In Chapter 6, Yung-Ping Chen provides an excellent perspective of social security insurance and links American issues to global issues. The editors have done an excellent job of providing a balanced viewpoint in each major section. This book represents an important breakthrough with respect to determining the future role of the Federal government in defining social welfare policy. It has utility for the practitioner and academician....this work could easily be incorporated in graduate level public administrative courses....-The Journal of Intergroup Relations
"Clothbound represents a significant effort toward crystallizing diverse perspectives on this issue. Thirteen powerful chapters were assembled to provide the reader with pertinent contemporary approaches for re-thinking the level of Federal government participation in social welfare policy development and delivery systems. Robert Lerman provides a particularly interesting economic perspective by arguing that the Federal government should support social welfare policy....In Chapter 6, Yung-Ping Chen provides an excellent perspective of social security insurance and links American issues to global issues. The editors have done an excellent job of providing a balanced viewpoint in each major section. This book represents an important breakthrough with respect to determining the future role of the Federal government in defining social welfare policy. It has utility for the practitioner and academician....this work could easily be incorporated in graduate level public administrative courses...."-The Journal of Intergroup Relations

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JOHN E. HANSAN is the coordinator for Odyssey Forum, an ad hoc correspondence group of social welfare advocates, policy analysts, and scholars established in 1995. Dr. Hansan, a retired social worker, has spent 40 years working for public and nonprofit human service organizations. He has been the executive director of the National Conference on Social Welfare and the National Association of Social Workers. Between 1973-1976, Dr. Hansan served first as Director of the Ohio Department of Public Welfare and later as Chief of Staff to the Governor of Ohio. He is editor (along with Helen K. Kerschner) of 365 WaysRetirees' Resource Guide for Productive Lifestyles (Greenwood, 1996). ROBERT MORRIS is Kirstein Professor Emeritus, Brandeis University and Cardinal Medieros Lecturer, University of Massachusetts-Boston. The past president of the Gerontology Society of America (1966-67), Dr. Morris is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Public Health Association. He has published a dozen books on social welfare, social policy and planning, health service organizations, and aging, his most recent being Testing the Limits: International Perspectives on Social Welfare Change in Nine Industrial Countries (1988). Dr. Morris also was editor-in-chief of the first comprehensive Encyclopedia of Social Work (16th ed., 1971).