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Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach sharpens
students' awareness of social welfare policy and offers a
considerable array of resources and knowledge foundations to both
understand and thrive within a continually evolving policy
landscape. Throughout the text, the authors tell the stories of
social workers who impact policy, incorporate frameworks for policy
analysis, center social work values and strengths principles, and
integrate the series' interactive and downloadable cases to
demonstrate policy's relevance and application to practice settings
and situations in concrete ways. Students may use the text as an
introduction to social policy, a tool for deeper examination of
policy topics, and as a lifelong companion for their
policy-relevant practice. Now in its sixth edition, the textbook is
fully updated to reflect substantial changes in policy arenas such
as health care, family economic support, immigration and asylum,
criminal justice, housing, reproductive rights, substance use
disorder, mental health treatment, and childcare, as well as the
implications of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. With additional
support and extensions available at www.routledgesw.com, Social
Policy for Effective Practice makes policy relevant, accessible,
and meaningful for social work students and is a perfect complement
to undergraduate and graduate courses on social policy and
practice.
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Making Education Work for the Poor identifies wealth inequality as
the gravest threat to the endangered American Dream. Though studies
have clearly illustrated that education is the primary path to
upward mobility, today, educational outcomes are more directly
determined by wealth than innate ability and exerted effort. This
accounting directly contradicts Americans' understanding of the
promise the American Dream is supposed to offer: a level playing
field and a path towards a more profitable future. In this book,
the authors share their own stories of their journeys through the
unequal U.S. education system. One started from relative privilege
and had her way to prosperity paved and her individual efforts
augmented by institutional and structural support. The other grew
up in poverty and had to fight against currents to complete higher
education, only to find his ability to profit from that degree
compromised by student debt. To directly counter wealth inequality
and make education the 'great equalizer' that Americans believe it
to be, this book calls for a revolution in financial aid policy,
from debt dependence to asset empowerment. The book examines the
evidence base supporting Children's Savings Accounts, including
CSAs' demonstrated potential to improve children's outcomes all
along the 'opportunity pipeline': early education, school
achievement, college access and completion, and post-college
financial health. It then outlines a policy that builds on CSAs to
incorporate a sizable, progressive wealth transfer. This new
policy, Opportunity Investment Accounts, is framed as the
cornerstone of the wealth-building agenda the nation needs in order
to salvage the American Dream. Written by leading CSA researchers,
the book includes overviews of the major children's savings
legislation proposed in Congress and the key features of prominent
CSA programs in operation around the country today, as well as new
qualitative and quantitative CSA research. The book ultimately
presents a critical development of the theories that, together,
explain how universal, progressive, asset-based education financing
could make education work equitably for all American children.
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