Issues for Debate in Social Policy is a timely supplement for courses in Social Policy. Each article gives substantial background and analysis of a particular issue as well as useful pedagogical features to inspire critical thinking and to help students grasp and review key material.

Topics include:

• Women's Rights

• Middle Class Squeeze

• Vanishing Jobs

• Race and Politics

• Domestic Poverty

• Welfare Reform

• Hunger in America

• Social Security Reform

• Child Welfare Reform

• Wounded Veterans

• Universal Coverage

• Ending Homelessness

• Mortgage Crisis

• Caring for the Elderly

• Aging Baby Boomers

• Gender Pay Gap

• The Obama Presidency.