Choices about budget priorities are arguably the most important made by the federal government, profoundly affecting the well-being of citizens. Bruce Jansson documents how presidents from FDR to Clinton have made ill-advised choices that wasted trillions of dollars. Going beyond charges of corruption or bureaucratic waste, the book is an eye-opening exposé revealing innumerable useless projects (military as well as civilian), unnecessary tax concessions, and the use of interest payments to cover deficit spending, among other costly mistakes. Using Office of Management and Budget projections through 2004, Jansson shows how the madness continues―and how an informed electorate can put an end to it.

The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake

Business & Money

Jansson, Bruce S.

Economics

Columbia University Press

Praise for Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy A Guide for the Health and Helping Professions "Bruce Jansson's thoughtful and innovative book will appeal to students in social work, nursing, and public health as well as those working in the health field of practice. The case examples are extraordinary, and Jansson provides the ideas, context, and theoretical base for readers to acquire the skills of advocacy in healthcare. This is by far the best advocacy book I have seen." ―Gary Rosenberg, PhD Director, Division of Social Work and Behavioral Science Mount Sinai School of Medicine "Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy is a terrific description of opportunities for advocacy intervention and provides the skill sets necessary for effective advocacy. A needed book." ―Laura Weil, LCSW Director, Health Advocacy Program Sarah Lawrence College "Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy is an invaluable resource for practitioners working in the healthcare field as well as for students. It very thoroughly covers healthcare advocacy issues, contains real-world case examples, and provides a clear, step-by-step framework for practicing advocacy." ―Kimberly Campbell, ACSW, LCSW Lecturer, Department of Social Work Ball State University An important resource for all who strive for the best in healthcare treatment for their patients, themselves, and the nation Bestselling author and award-winning researcher Bruce S. Jansson uses an intervention framework to illustrate how everyone in the healthcare system can advocate effectively, not just for better healthcare delivery to individual clients but for the necessary policy change that will deliver long- term solutions to our nation's healthcare crisis as well. Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy provides professionals with: <ul>
<li> Tools to move from traditional services to case advocacy and policy advocacy tasks </li> <li> Over 100 case studies from the perspective of patients, healthcare providers, and others who relate the experiences they have encountered in the healthcare system and share the wisdom they have learned </li> <li> Practical tips on how to provide effective advocacy and bring about positive and long-term change in this complex environment </li> </ul>

Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy: A Guide for the Health and Helping Professions

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

wiley

Written in clear, lively prose by one of the foremost scholars in the area of social welfare, THE RELUCTANT WELFARE STATE: ENGAGING HISTORY TO ADVANCE SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY, Sixth Edition, places social policy into political, cultural, and societal context. Using social policy history as a catalyst, Dr. Jansson analyzes the evolution of American welfare and invites you to think critically about issues, developments, and policies in prior eras and in contemporary society, to help you develop your own "policy identity."

The Reluctant Welfare State: Engaging History to Advance Social Work Practice in Contemporary Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Brooks/Cole

Now in its sixth edition, BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE POLICY ADVOCATE continues to embrace the policy-practice framework that made it a success while including coverage of important recent developments in the field. This groundbreaking text goes beyond the traditional foundational approach to policy and helps students develop the skills they need to become advocates for social change. Students are taught the ins-and-outs of conducting policy-practice so that they will be prepared to implement policy reform during their own careers.

Becoming an Effective Policy Advocate (SW 323K Social Welfare Programs, Policies, and Issues)

Theory and Practice of Social Welfare Policy: Analysis, Processes and Current Issues

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

The Reluctant Welfare State: A History of American Social Welfare Policies

Sociology

Wadsworth

Social Welfare Policy: From Theory to Policy Practice

Social welfare policy: From theory to practice

Well-written, impeccably researched, this chronologically organized text includes a complete description of a wide range of social programs and policies, placing social welfare policies in their societal context, from colonial times to the present.

Reluctant Welfare State: A History of American Social Welfare Policies

This book has been completely reorganized to fit the idea of the social work professional becoming an active participant in the formation and implementation of social welfare policy. Social workers are known for their dedication to action (doing), policy is seen as something that is observed or studied. Jansson proposes a way of making policy active (or a way of doing policy.) This is a cutting edge book.

Social Policy: From Theory to Practice

Your students will find discussion of these issues and more in this comprehensive, scholarly introduction to social welfaare policy in the United States. This book challenges readers to think critically about issues, developments, anad policies aboth in paast eras and in contemporary society. Throughout the book,a Jansson invites students to become policy practitioners anad advocates anad to develop their own "policy identities." Designed to show readers taht social policy history is powerfully relevant to social workers when used to stimulate critical thinking about issues, developments, and policies in prior eras and in contemporary society. The Third Edition of Jannson's highly respected text offers a comprehensive and scholarly introduction to social welfare policy in the United States.

Reluctant Welfare State: American Social Welfare Policies: Past, Present, and Future

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