Reference no: EM133273423

1. How were dependent women and children and the elderly perceived and cared for in the early American history?

2. What market failures led to the creation of the New Deal and the Social Security Act?

3. What were the assumptions underlying the creation of the first Social Security policy in 1953?

4. What are the current federal policies that provide housing for low-income persons?

6. What is the role of marker economy in the United States?

7. What is the mortgage crisis, and how did it contribute to widespread economic problems in the Unites States?

8. From a social and economic justice perspective, do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

"Each family is so complex as to be known and understood only in part even by its own members. Families struggle with contradictions as massive as Everest, as fluid and changing as the Mississippi River...Yet when practical the preference should be for family..."

"Despite the proliferation of statutes, policies, and legal procedures, decision-making is heavily influenced by availability of prevention and placement resources; values and biases of service providers; attitudes of judges; ambiguities in abuse and neglect definitions; the imprecise nature of information about human behavior; and the impossibility of predicting the future."