John was born in a very poor neighborhood and has had a life of privation. There
wasn't a good school in his neighborhood, and as a result, his education was very
deficient.
John has had difficulty finding a good job, in particular because he does not
own a car and public transportation is very inefficient in the city he lives in. He has
had a couple of runs-in with the law and likes to drink. According to welfare
reformers of the 1990's he is
A. Behaviorally poor.
B. Cash poor.
C. Suffering the result of structural inequalities in his social environment.
D. In need of a good woman.
A
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Describe two factors of re-tooling social work to collaborate with engineering.
What will be an ideal response?
In 2001, Professor Dennis Breach believed that the social climate following veterans returning from war
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