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A much-needed, indispensable volume for anyone involved in the social services or human services field, Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities supplies you with vital information that will assist you in offering culturally sensitive services to your clients. You will gain a new perspective from the blending of traditional academic research with the voices of those most intimately affected. From Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities, you will learn proven methods that will help you offer successful and effective services to your Native American...

Learn why it is imperative to bring a progressive focus back to social welfare policy
This vital book explores recent research on poverty and inequality, identifies strategies for ensuring adequate services, and challenges many of the inaccurate beliefs that were used to justify welfare reform legislation in 1996. You'll find up-to-date information on various marginalized groups and their social problems, including lack of health coverage for women with mental health, substance abuse, and domestic violence problems. In addition, you'll find data on the health coverage situation for the...

Ten articles, also published as the Journal of Poverty, vol. 7, nos. 1/2 (2003), consider such issues as health care for the poor in the US, political promises for welfare reform, gender differences in the economic well-being of non-aged adults, Central Appalachia, lessons from Appalachian Kentucky, and driving out of poverty in private automobile

Aimed primarily at social service providers to American Indians, eight essays convey how historical inequality shapes indigenous experience of current issues: welfare reform, economic development through gaming, domestic violence, barriers to health care, and the need to interpret minority narratives from a strength as vs. deficit view. Co- publish

Presents articles from 23 community practitioners and researchers who challenge the 'reform' that has turned public aid from a right to a privilege. This book analyses the consequences of legislative changes made to the public assistance program formerly known as Aid to Families with Dependant Children (AFDC).