Reading Assignment

Read Chapter 17, Social Welfare Policy, pages 596-635 in your text before completing the rest of this section. The section activities will require that you are able to readily access the information.

For this first reading assignment you should be able to:

• Define social welfare
• Compare and contrast different forms of taxation
• Select a significant social policy, identify its major provisions and trace its development, identifying the influences on its passage and implementation.
• Compare and contrast the social policies of the United States and western European countries