Term
Fall 2017
Time
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Course #
SW858
U-M Class #
20885
Program Type
Residential
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Credits
3
Credit Hours

This course analyzes the conditions and causes of poverty within the United States and the variety of economic, social, and political responses to it. The first part of the course explores the problems of poverty, including a discussion of various causal theories of poverty and the underlying implications of these theories. The second part of the course analyzes specific problems and policy proposals, with particular attention to the most recent round of legislative reforms since the mid‐1990’s.

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Course Codes

W
Social Work is not the home dept; home dept in parenthesis, contact home dept with questions