The crisis of caregiving
Subtitle: social welfare policy in the U.S.
By: [edited by] Betty Reid Mandell.
Contributors: Mandell, Betty Reid.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230622616
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States; United States -- Social policy
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Who Cares? The Crisis of Caregiving; title: Betty Reid Mandell * Women's Work, Mothers' Poverty; title: Gwendolyn Mink * Paid Family and Medical Leave; title: Randy Albelda and Betty Reid Mandell * The Privatization of Care; title: Betty Reid Mandell * Shelters for the Homeless: A Feeble Response to Homelessness; title: Betty Reid Mandell * Foster Care; title: Betty Reid Mandell * Adoption; title: Betty Reid Mandell * The Punitive State; title: Marguerite Rosenthal * Alternatives to Welfare; title: Betty Reid Mandell * Appendix A: Current Safety Net Programs in the U.S.; title: Betty Reid Mandell * Appendix B: Advocacy organizations; title: Betty Reid Mandell.