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• Preface
• Research Navigator
• 1 Politics, Rationalism, and Social Welfare
• Politics and Social Welfare Policy
• Illustration 1-1 Special Tips for the Legislative Process
• The Policymaking Process
• The American Public and Social Welfare
• Illustration 1-2 We Can Take Care of Our Own...or Can We?
• 2 Government and Social Welfare
• Historical Perspectives on Social Welfare
• Illustration 2-1 The Revolution No One Noticed
• The Expansion of Social Welfare
• Finances in the Welfare State
• Illustration 2-2 Intelligence Report: Our Low Taxes
• The Legacy of ldquo;Reaganomics.rdquo; Helping the ldquo;Truly Needy.rdquo;
• The Presidential Years of Bill Clinton
• 3 Defining Poverty: Where to Begin? What Is Poverty?
• Poor and Homeless: Not Invisible Anymore
• Illustration 3-1 Homeless in Paradise
• Illustration 3-2 Pam Jackson's New Apartment
• A Fundamental Shift
• 4 Preventing Poverty: The Social Insurance Programs
• Preventing Poverty through Compulsory Savings
• Illustration 4-1 Social Securityndash;
• Who Qualifies, and How Much Do Beneficiaries Receive?
• Illustration 4-2 Will You Reap What You Sow?
• Unemployment Compensation
• Workers' Compensation
• 5 Helping the ldquo;Deserving Poorrdquo;: Aged, Blind, and Disabled
• Public Assistance for the Deserving Poor
• Illustration 5-1 Example of What Happens When You Are Disabled
• Rehabilitative Services for Individuals with Disabilities
• The Era of Civil Rights for People with Disabilities
• Illustration 5-2 What Is Reasonable Accommodation for People with Disabilities?
• Disability Policy for Children
• Building a Better Policy on Disability
• Illustration 5-3 Guidance from the EEOC in Implementing the Americans with Disabilities
• Act in Cases of Psychiatric Impairment
• General Assistance: The State and Community Response to Welfare
• Federalism and Social Welfare
• 6 Ending Welfare as We Knew It: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
• From Mothers' Aid to AFDC
• Trying to Make Parents Pay
• Welfare and Work
• Illustration 6-1 What Mothers and Fathers Think about Child Support Enforcement
• Why the Fuss about AFDC?
• Illustration 6-2 Why Mother Slapped Me.