Veterans of the United States armed forces may be eligible for a broad range of benefits and services provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEARA LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning history of the British Welfare State -now fully revised and updated for the 21st Century.
Historically, the welfare state of the 20th century, which was built on the foundation of an industrial economy, seems poorly adapted to a 21st-century information age.
The safeguarding and child protection challenges in education have never been more complex, nor the legal duties on schools and colleges more stringent.
This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be hyper-consumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future.
Con un fino analisis, James Scott ubica en el surgimiento de los Estados premodernos la importancia que ha tenido la creacion de mecanismos de legibilidad cuya tarea ha sido simplificar y hacer visible parte de la complejidad de los elementos que dan forma al Estado.
Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children.
Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children.
Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States.
Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States.
In the ten years after President Clinton made good on his promise to "e;end welfare as we know it"e; by signing the reform act of 1996, the number of families on welfare dropped by over three million.
In the ten years after President Clinton made good on his promise to "e;end welfare as we know it"e; by signing the reform act of 1996, the number of families on welfare dropped by over three million.
Most Americans are insulated from the poor; it's hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of crime and victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child.
From the author of international bestsellers A Circle of Children and Lovey comes an inspiring true story of a gifted teacher's determination to understand the 'rotten' city kid everyone has given up on.
Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass' heartbreaking memoir I Miss Mummy now combined in a single volume with her inspiring new title Please Don't Take My Baby, about a pregnant teenager desperate to keep her child.
