Mimi Abramovitz

The first edition of The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy reinvented the standard social welfare policy text to speak to students in a vital new way. This second edition builds on its strengths, with a thorough update of the effects of recent political and legislative changes on social welfare programs. Highlights from this edition include: revised data in text, charts, and graphs that show how government policies are proving the points made throughout the chapters; exhaustive statistics about every major social program's budget, benefits, and participants; an underlying policy model updated in response to the evolving political environment; more graphics and an attractive new two-color interior design that make debates easier to grasp and the book easier to navigate. One can visit www.oup.com/us/dynamics for access to the instructor's manual and test bank. Joel Blau is a professor of social policy at the School of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University. 

For every woman who pays taxes and uses public services, and everyone who cares about an effective and fair tax system, Taxes Are a Woman's Issue dares to expose not only how tax policies shape the size of our bank accounts but also how they sculpt our government and the nation's identity. Authors Mimi Abramovitz and Sandra Morgen, writing for the National Council for Research on Women, convincingly dispel myths about the current welfare system and expose how the IRS-supported tax system was created in, and caters to, a time before women entered the work force. By honestly discussing the many ways that the current tax system disadvantages women, Taxes Are a Woman's Issue courageously teaches, as the President of the Council Linda Basch states, about positive changes that will improve the lives of all women and their families, their communities, and the nation as a whole."