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Intro -- Contents -- Part I: Overview of the Topic -- 1: Introduction to Welfare and Welfare Reform -- 2: The Law of Welfare and Welfare Reform -- 3: Chronology -- 4: Biographical Listing -- 5: Glossary -- Part II: Guide to Further Research -- 6: How to Research Welfare and Welfare Reform -- 7: Annotated Bibliography -- 8: Organizations and Agencies -- Part III: Appendices -- Appendix A: National Radio Address Delivered by Frances Perkins (1935) -- Appendix B: Speech by President Franklin Roosevelt on Signing the Social Security Act of 1935 -- Appendix C: President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" Speech (1964) -- Appendix D: Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Speech Opposing Welfare Reform (1995) -- Appendix E: President Bill Clinton's Remarks on Signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 -- Appendix F: Selection from the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 -- Appendix G: Overall Welfare Spending, Federal and State, 1968-2002 -- Appendix H: Highlights of Welfare Provisions Within the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 -- Appendix I: Seventh Annual Report of the Office of Family Assistance/Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (2006) -- Index.

In a time of increasing inequality, why has there been a recent surge of support for political parties who promote an anti-welfare message? Using a mixed methods approach and newly released data, this book aims to answer this question and to show possible ways forward for welfare states

Danes love sharing, caring and communal singing, Auld Lang Syne, 99 bottles of Carlsberg, and public welfare for all. This sounds too good to be true - and it is. Like every great fairy tale, the model welfare state has a dark side. Carsten Jensen, tax-funded welfare authority at Aarhus University, reveals its soft underbelly, warts and all. Danes love public welfare services, and many would pay even higher taxes to get more - but only more of the services they use. And those who don't subscribe to the good life, middle-class style? The answer is blowing in the wind

A rational exploration of the ethical and welfare issues in all areas of equine use. This book addresses controversial and emotive issues surrounding these iconic creatures, providing a reliable source of information to support informed debate. It will enable all those with an interest in horses and the uses they are put to gain an awareness of the problems and abuses that occur. The book draws on the expertise of a range of acknowledged leaders in equine health and welfare. The first part of the book explores general issues of the horse's needs and nature. The second part contains chapters ea

While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received far less attention. Using empirical case studies, this book provides significant new insights into the way welfare administration is being internationally transformed. Particular attention is given to the effect on welfare clients, staff and agencies

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction / Mink, Gwendolyn -- I. Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Welfare Politics -- 1. Dependency and Choice: The Two Faces of Eve / Solinger, Rickie -- 2. When Work Is Slavery / Boris, Eileen -- 3. From Maximum Feasible Participation to Disenfranchisement / Naples, Nancy A. -- II. Class, Race, and Gender in the New Welfare Regime -- 4. Welfare and Work / Fox Piven, Frances -- 5. Asian Immigrant Communities and the Racial Politics of Welfare Reform / Fujiwara, Lynn H. -- 6. Women, Welfare, and Domestic Violence / Kurz, Demie -- 7. Welfare's Ban on Poor Motherhood / Roberts, Dorothy -- III. Toward a New Welfare Politics? -- 8. Aren't Poor Single Mothers Women? Feminists, Welfare Reform, and Welfare Justice / Mink, Gwendolyn -- 9. Welfare, Dependency, and a Public Ethic of Care / Feder Kittay, Eva -- 10. Toward a Framework for Understanding Activism among Poor and Working-Class Women in Twentieth-Century America / Abramovitz, Mimi -- Contributors -- Index

Intro -- CHILD WELFARE: FUNDING APPROACHES AND PROGRAM OBJECTIVES -- CHILD WELFARE: FUNDING APPROACHES AND PROGRAM OBJECTIVES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1CHILD WELFARE: RECENT AND PROPOSED FEDERAL FUNDING -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- DEDICATED CHILD WELFARE FUNDING BY PURPOSE -- Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, and KinshipGuardianship Assistance -- Services for Youth in, or Formerly in, Foster Care -- Services for Children and Families -- Research, Other Grants, and Incentive Funds -- Composition of Funding by Purpose -- THE PRESIDENT'S FY2013 BUDGET REQUESTFOR CHILD WELFARE -- Overview -- Legislative Proposals -- Improve the Child Welfare System -- Child Support Enforcement Proposal Related to Foster Care -- Continue Funding for Child Welfare Study on Permanent Basis -- Requests to Increase, Eliminate, or Redirect Certain Funding -- Increase Child Welfare Research Funds to Address Commercial Exploitation of Children -- Redirect Funds to Provide Grants to Reduce PregnancyAmong Foster Youth -- Eliminate Funding for Programs Under the Victims of Child Abuse Act -- Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Funding -- Child Abuse Training of Judicial Personnel and Practitioners -- Children's Advocacy Centers -- TITLE IV-E PROGRAM FUNDING -- An Appropriated Entitlement -- FY2013 Funding Request Compared to Prior YearBudget Authority -- Adoption Assistance -- Foster Care -- Decline in Overall Foster Care Caseload -- Erosion in Share of Foster Care Caseload Eligiblefor Federal Assistance -- Kinship Guardianship Assistance -- Tribal Access to Title IV-E Funding -- FY2012 APPROPRIATION LEGISLATION -- FUNDING LEVEL PROVIDED FOR FY2012 -- Mandatory Funding -- Discretionary Funding -- BUDGET CONTROL ACT AND CHILDWELFARE PROGRAMS -- Effect on Child Welfare Programs with Discretionary Funding -- Effect on Child Welfare Programs with Mandatory Funding

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Cultural and Religious Views on Animal Rights -- 1: Islamic Beliefs Require That Animals Be Treated Humanely -- 2: Cockfighting Remains Legal and Popular in the Dominican Republic -- 3: The Prohibition of Ritual Animal Slaughter Throughout the World Is Cultural Discrimination -- 4: South Africa's Ritual Slaughters Do Not Supersede the Rights of Animals -- 5: Jews Should Become Vegetarians to Respect Animal Rights -- 6: Christians Should Treat Animals Humanely -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Animal Welfare and Global Biomedical Research -- 1: Animal Experimentation Is Necessary for the Well-Being of Humans -- 2: Japan's Cultural Traditions Shape Its Animal Experimentation Policies -- 3: Studying Pet Dogs with Cancer Can Help Humans Around the World -- 4: The European Union's Cosmetics Directive Has Many Loopholes -- 5: Animal Experimentation Rates in the United Kingdom Have Dramatically Increased -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The World Food Industry and Animal Welfare -- 1: Automation Systems for Farm Animals Harm Human-Animal Relationships -- 2: Farmed Fish Suffer from Poor Conditions Across the Globe -- 3: Stressful Living Conditions for Turkeys Can Increasethe Rates of Foodborne Illness in the United States -- 4: Polish Factory Farms Are Hazardous to the Well-Being of Pigs -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Animal Ownership and Animal Welfare Around the World -- 1: International Zoos and Aquariums Can Help Save Animal Species from Extinction -- 2: Bolivian Circus Animals Are in Limbo After a Ban on Keeping Wild Animals -- 3: Canadian and American Puppy Mills Must Be Shut Down