Social Policy. Essential Primary Sources

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
ISBN 1414403283......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Advisors and Contributors......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
About the Set......Page 22
Introduction......Page 23
About the Entry......Page 24
Using Primary Sources......Page 29
Chronology......Page 31
Shaping Social Policy: Governments, Organizations, the International Community and the Individual......Page 38
Shaping Social Policy: Governments, Organizations, the International Community and the Individual......Page 40
How Not to Help Our Poorer Brothers......Page 41
The Danger Threatening Representative Government......Page 45
Theodore Roosevelt on the Role of the State in Its Citizen’s Lives......Page 47
Theodore Roosevelt on Manhood and Statehood......Page 50
Civic Cooperation......Page 54
The Diffusion of Property Ownership......Page 58
Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical......Page 60
Habitat for Humanity......Page 63
Reparations: A National Apology......Page 66
Fourth World Conference on Women......Page 69
United Nations Millennium Declaration......Page 72
Establishment of White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives......Page 76
UNICEF......Page 78
To Walk the Earth in Safety......Page 81
The Millennium Declaration to End Hunger in America......Page 84
Model Colonia......Page 88
International Red Cross......Page 90
Katrina: Our System for Fixing Broken Lives is Broken......Page 93
Google Subpoena Roils the Web......Page 96
More Companies Ending Promises for Retirement......Page 99
Social Policy before 1878......Page 104
Social Policy before 1878......Page 106
Amendment XIII to the United States Constitution......Page 107
XIV Amendment......Page 108
First Census......Page 110
On Indian Removal......Page 113
American Notes......Page 115
The Fleet Prison......Page 118
Smoking Him Out......Page 120
Clay’s Resolutions......Page 123
An Act Concerning the Attendance of Children at School......Page 125
The Know-Nothing Party......Page 127
On the Know-Nothing Party......Page 129
Homestead Act of 1862......Page 131
Morrill Act of 1862......Page 134
An Act to Establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees......Page 137
Special Field Orders No. 15......Page 140
Andrew Johnson Kicking out the Freedmen’s Bureau......Page 142
Education of the Freedmen......Page 145
Anti-Chinese Political Cartoon......Page 148
The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era......Page 152
The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era......Page 154
How the Other Half Lives......Page 155
Waifs of the City Slums......Page 157
Coxey’s Army......Page 161
The Greatest Issue of the Day......Page 164
Platform of the Populists......Page 166
Plessy v. Ferguson......Page 169
The Jungle......Page 173
What Roosevelt Stands For......Page 178
Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution......Page 182
The Need for Safety from the Worker’s Point of View......Page 184
The Great Depression and the New Deal......Page 188
The Great Depression and the New Deal......Page 190
On the First Hundred Days......Page 191
National Recovery Administration......Page 195
Social Security Advertisement......Page 197
The National Union for Social Justice......Page 198
A Nebraska Farm Scene......Page 201
Share Our Wealth......Page 204
Speech upon Signing the Social Security Act......Page 207
Radio Address Roosevelt’s Defense of the New Deal......Page 209
View of New Deal, a Work Relief Shack Town......Page 213
Executive Order 8099— Administration of Benefits Provided by Act of Congress......Page 216
Tennessee Valley Authority......Page 218
Better Housing......Page 220
The Depression Breadline......Page 223
World War II and Post-war Social Policy......Page 228
World War II and Post-war Social Policy......Page 230
Executive Order 8802......Page 231
On the Home Front......Page 233
Executive Order 9066......Page 236
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act......Page 239
Statement by the President Upon Signing the National School Lunch Act......Page 241
A Fair Deal......Page 243
Not a Fair Deal......Page 248
Executive Order 10521......Page 251
Brown v. Board of Education......Page 255
Executive Order 10730......Page 259
Establishment of Peace Corps......Page 262
Equal Pay Act of 1963......Page 264
The Great Society......Page 268
The Great Society......Page 270
The Great Society......Page 271
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act......Page 274
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964......Page 276
Executive Order 11141— Declaring a Public Policy against Discrimination on the Basis of Age......Page 280
Proposal for a Nationwide War on the Sources of Poverty......Page 282
Social Security Amendments of 1965......Page 285
The Establishment of the Robert T. Stafford Federal Student Loan Program......Page 287
Remarks with President Truman at the Signing in Independence of the Medicare Bill......Page 289
Guns or Butter......Page 294
Loving v. Virginia......Page 297
Fair Housing Act of 1968......Page 300
The National Flood Insurance Program......Page 302
Executive Order 11521......Page 305
Black Students Arrive at South Boston High School in 1974......Page 308
Executive Order 12127......Page 311
Executive Order 12138......Page 314
Head Start Act......Page 318
Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980......Page 322
Current Issues in Social Policy: Healthcare, Housing, Welfare, and Social Security......Page 328
Current Issues in Social Policy: Healthcare, Housing, Welfare, and Social Security......Page 332
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act......Page 333
Fair Housing Act......Page 337
Health Security for All Americans......Page 340
The Hidden Side of the American Welfare State......Page 345
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993......Page 348
The Welfarization of Health Care......Page 353
Momma Welfare Roll......Page 358
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996......Page 361
“They Think You Ain’t Much of Nothing”......Page 365
Covering the Uninsured through TennCare: Does It Make a Difference?......Page 370
Law Limits Ritalin Recommendations......Page 374
Maximize Self Sufficiency Through Work and Additional Constructive Activities......Page 377
Food Stamps Program......Page 382
Race, Class, and Real Estate......Page 385
Once Woeful, Alabama Is Model in Child Welfare......Page 389
WIC Approved Food List......Page 393
The Drug Decision......Page 396
Breastfeeding Promotion in WIC......Page 399
The President’s Savings Plans......Page 402
Officer Next Door Program......Page 405
Yonkers Moves to Limit Where Sex Offenders Live......Page 407
Federal Costs Dropping Under New Medicare Drug Plan, Administration Reports......Page 409
Ban on Most Abortions Advances in South Dakota......Page 412
HUD Charges Philadelphia Landlords with Six Violations of Fair Housing Act......Page 415
HUD Creates New, Expanded Hurricane Disaster Voucher Program......Page 418
HUD Announces Nearly $25 Million in “Sweat Equity” Grants to Help Families Build Their Own American Dream......Page 420
Jackson Addresses Indian Leaders’ Washington Summit......Page 423
Social Policy: Education, Employment, and Family......Page 426
Current Issues in Social Policy: Education, Employment, and Family......Page 428
Executive Order 12432......Page 429
Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989......Page 431
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990......Page 433
Georgia Plan Would Give Top Students Free Tuition......Page 438
The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher......Page 442
Security Is Main Theme of a Spate of New Laws......Page 446
Dealing with Sex Offenders......Page 448
Affirmative Action’s Long Record......Page 452
One Nation…Indivisible......Page 455
No. 60. An Act Relating to Equal Educational Opportunity......Page 459
Homeschooling......Page 463
Student Loans: A Slippery Lifeline......Page 468
The New Freedom Initiative......Page 472
Abstinence-Only Initiative Advancing......Page 476
School Set Aside for Hawaiians Ends Exclusion to Cries of Protest......Page 479
College Is Already Affordable, Likely for Most Recipients......Page 483
Lies, Distortions and School Choice......Page 487
CWLA Testimony for the Hearing on the Implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act......Page 489
California Workers’ Compensation System......Page 494
Safety and Stability for Foster Children......Page 499
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star......Page 502
Whatever It Takes, Don’t Let Your Friends Drop Out......Page 506
For Parents Seeking a Choice, Charter Schools Prove More Popular Than Vouchers......Page 508
The President’s Physical Fitness Challenge......Page 512
School Vouchers: The Wrong Choice for Public Education......Page 513
State Seeks to Block “No Child Left Behind”......Page 517
Your Taxes......Page 520
Sources Consulted......Page 524
Index......Page 540