INEQUALITY IN U.S. SOCIAL POLICY

In the second edition of Inequality in U.S. Social Policy: An Historic Analysis Bryan Warde illuminates the pervasive and powerful role that social inequality based on race and ethnicity gender immigration status sexual orientation class and disability plays and has historically played in informing social policy. Using critical race theory and other structural oppression theoretical frameworks this book examines social inequalities as they relate to social welfare education housing employment health care and child welfare immigration and criminal justice. With fully updated statistics throughout and an examination of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the United States this new edition addresses the mammoth political and social changes which have affected inequality in the past few years.Inequality in U.S. Social Policy will help social work students better understand the origins of inequalities that their clients face as well as providing an introduction for other social science students.