American Social Policy - HUMS 365 Resource Guide

Articles about Social Security.

Selected article about the performance of the Social Security Disability Insurance program.

Many of the federal and state programs that provide income security to U.S. families have their roots in the Social Security Act (the Act) of 1935. This Act provided for unemployment insurance, old-age insurance, and means-tested welfare programs.

Is the program running out of money?

Should more be done to protect children?

This critical analysis of foster youth advisory boards in the United States answers the following questions: (1) What/where are each of the Youth Advisory Boards in the United States? (2) How is each board implemented? (3) How would a young person aging out of care (or a practitioner working with this population) access its local board?

This article offers a review of welfare reform evaluation studies, summarizing research that has generated a consensus among mainstream policy analysts that the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) has had few effects beyond caseload reductions and increases in employment.

The welfare reform bill adopted in the United States in 1996 limited the eligibility of immigrants for several government assistance programs, and early projections estimated that nearly half of the savings associated with the reforms would come from these immigrant restrictions.

The article focuses on the efforts of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging to build a better home-delivered meal systems (HDM) for nursing homes in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Includes articles, books, and videos

Includes articles and books.

Articles in SocINDEX.

The aim of this study is to discuss how social costs in health social policies can be evaluated.

The article offers information on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which provides an opportunity for states and local education agencies (LEAs) to rethink goals and policies for public education.

In this policy snapshot, we summarize existing research about the effects of education on students' social and emotional skills and identify important state and district policy considerations for initiating and integrating social and emotional learning, as well as for preparing and developing teachers and administrators to focus on the whole child.

Objectives. To investigate the effects of state minimum wage laws on low birth weight and infant mortality in the United States.

Includes articles and books.

Should the government do more to punish violators to worker safety?

This article compares three poverty measurements: monetary poverty, social exclusion, and capability poverty measurements.

Includes articles and books.

Articles about criminal justice policy.

Studies further show that the incarceration rate continues to rise because many released prisoners would return for violating parole terms or committing new crimes. Therefore, this paper argues that these are the results of the lack of an inmate's absolute right to rehabilitation, which would prepare inmates for release.

Articles from the Academic Search Complete database.

Should government regulate unhealthy foods?

Includes articles and books.

Articles in the Academic Search Complete database.

The article focuses on the need for reforms in the U.S. agriculture and food policies in order to achieve sustainability in food systems and highlights the steps that should be taken in this regard.

By evaluating the social problems such as food insecurity that have necessitated the enactment of nutritional assistance programs within the United States, this article will review nutritional assistance policies and programs throughout U.S. history.

This paper places America's “war on drugs” in perspective in order to develop a new metaphor for control of drug misuse. A brief and focused history of America's experience with substance use and substance use policy over the past several hundred years provides background and a framework to compare the current Pharmacological Revolution with America's Nineteenth Century Industrial Revolution.

When assessing the impact of U.S. drug laws on society, one group is often overlooked: children. This policy analysis reviews the data on parental drug involvement, incarceration, and problems of re-entry in order to understand how drug legislation affects children.