Social Work articles from July 2002

Social Work archives from July 2002

What knowledge is relevant to Social Work practice? The case of TANF reauthorization. (Editorial).(Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)(Editorial)
July 1, 2002... Professions exist in large part to organize expertise to solve problems in society (Abbott, 1988). Educators solve problems of learning, physicians solve problems of health, lawyers solve problems of justice, social workers solve problems...

Federalism and social justice: implications for social work.
July 1, 2002... As we enter the 21st century, the current conservative political environment of the United States is likely to continue and possibly become more entrenched. One outgrowth of this movement is increased responsibility placed on state and local...

Innovation in social policy: collaborative policy advocacy.
July 1, 2002... The arena for social policy making in the United States is shifting from the federal level to the states (Conlan, 1998; Schneider, Westerberg, & Kasper, 1999). Although policy devolution raises serious challenges for progressive and coherent...

Charitable Choice and faith-based welfare: a call for social work.
July 1, 2002... As the U.S. social welfare system continues to undergo radical transformation begun by passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) (P.L. 104-193), limited attention has been given to the...

Welfare use as a life course event: toward a new understanding of the U.S. safety net.
July 1, 2002... Few behaviors are as stigmatized in American society as that of welfare use. Survey research has repeatedly documented the public's considerable animosity regarding means-tested welfare programs and their participants (Gilens, 1999; Horan &...

Changing safety net of last resort: downsizing general assistance for employable adults.
July 1, 2002... The passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 (P.L. 104-193) has stimulated widespread concern about the viability of government income supports for low-income people. The act replaced the...

What social workers need to know about the earned income tax credit.
July 1, 2002... Over the past several years, U. S. welfare policy has been characterized by an increasing emphasis on employment as the pathway to self-sufficiency. Conservatives, who want to increase work incentives and decrease welfare "dependence," have...

Living on the edge: examination of people attending food pantries and soup kitchens.
July 1, 2002... Reported increases in demand at local food pantries and soup kitchens and the proliferation of additional sites to meet that demand have raised the issue of the adequacy of the response to hunger in this country (Second Harvest, 1998). This...

TANF: what went wrong and what to do next.(Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)
July 1, 2002... In 1996, as public sentiment against women on welfare reached a crescendo, the federal government eliminated the 60-year-old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and replaced it with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families...

Dynamics of income packaging: a 10-year longitudinal study.
July 1, 2002... As welfare recipients have increased their participation in the labor force under the implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L.104-193), heightened attention has been given to the...

Social work advocacy in the post-TANF environment: lessons from early TANF research studies.(Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)
July 1, 2002... Social work is distinguished by its history of services provision and advocacy on behalf of people who are poor. The NASW Code of Ethics asserts that the profession's "social change efforts are focused primarily on issues of poverty,...

Voicing realities and recommending reform in PRWORA.(Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996)
July 1, 2002... Jimenez (1999), in her feminist analysis of welfare reform, regretted the fate of poor women. Jimenez's thesis is that welfare reform is a back-lash against poor women's challenge to traditional gender roles and mainstream values about women's...

Letters.
July 1, 2002... Response to Co-Constructing Cooperation with Mandated Clients Every few years somebody claims a whole new approach to working with clients. Of]ate, this usually also involves not acknowledging those who originally introduced the ideas. Such...

Relevant books received.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Welfare American Policy Making: Welfare as Ritual William M. Epstein Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, 224 pp. ISBN: 07425-1732-2 $75.00 hardback; ISBN: 07425-1733-0 $26.95 paperback. The Assault on Social Policy...