Abstract Prior Journal of Marriage and Family decade‐in‐review articles have grappled with
the definition and role of family policy for research and policy practice while emphasizing its …

Administrative burden in social welfare programs is increasingly recognized as a barrier to
eligible individuals' access to their legally entitled benefits. Using composite indices of …

With limited federal requirements for block grants, states have developed very different
welfare policies, often with onerous recertification or reporting requirements, creating …

Link and Phelan's pioneering 1995 theory of fundamental causes urged health scholars to
consider the macro-level contexts that “put people at risk of risks.” Allied research on the …

This essay reviews the policy‐oriented literature on economic inequality in wealthy countries
published from 2008 to 2018. We focus on this decade because it is a period bookended by …

Social provision in the United States is highly decentralized. Significant federal and state
funding flows to local organizational actors, who are granted discretion over how to allocate …

What does federalism do to welfare states? This question arises in scholarly debates about
policy design as well as in discussions about the right political institutions for a country. It …

Rather than being seen simply as social policy implementors, in recent decades there has
been increasing recognition of social workers as professionals with unique knowledge and …

Poverty and the poor have been central to social work throughout the profession's history.
Much of the discussion in social work conceptualises poverty as a category that people are …

This study investigates whether the generosity and accessibility of publicly provided income
support contributes to levels of family homelessness. Using data on student homelessness …