Stephen V. Monsma Faith, Hope, and Jobs (Hardback) Religion and Politics series

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Faith, Hope, and JobsCondition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: Welfare-to-Work in Los AngelesISBN-10: 1589011112EAN: 9781589011113ISBN: 9781589011113Publisher: Georgetown University PressRelease Date: 08/04/2006Description: A front-burner issue on the public policy agenda today is the increased use of partnerships between government and nongovernmental entities, including faith-based social service organizations. In the wake of President Bush's faith-based initiative, many are still wondering about the effectiveness of these faith-based organizations in providing services to those in need, and whether they provide better outcomes than more traditional government, secular nonprofit, and for-profit organizations. In Faith, Hope, and Jobs, Stephen V. Monsma and J. Christopher Soper study the effectiveness of 17 different welfare-to-work programs in Los Angeles County—a county in which the U.S. government spends 14% of its entire welfare budget—and offer groundbreaking insight into understanding what works and what doesn't. Monsma and Soper examine client assessment of the programs, their progress in developing attitudes and resources important for finding self-supporting employment, and their experience in finding actual employment. The study reveals that the clients of the more explicitly faith-based programs did best in gaining in social capital and were highly positive in evaluating the religious components of their programs. For-profit programs tended to do the best in terms of their clients finding employment. Overall, the religiously active respondents tended to experience better outcomes than those who were not religiously active but surprisingly, the religiously active and non-active tended to do equally well in faith-based programs.Faith, Hope, and Jobs concludes with three sets of concrete recommendations for public policymakers, social service program managers, and researchers.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 386gAuthor: Stephen V. MonsmaContributor: Stephen V. Monsma (Contributions by), J. Christopher Soper (Contributions by)Genre: Society & CultureTopic: Philosophy & Spirituality, Social SciencesBook Series: Religion and Politics seriesRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Faith, Hope, and Jobs

Title: Faith, Hope, and Jobs

Subtitle: Welfare-to-Work in Los Angeles

ISBN-10: 1589011112

EAN: 9781589011113

ISBN: 9781589011113

Release Date: 08/04/2006

Release Year: 2006

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Contributor: J. Christopher Soper (Contributions by)

Genre: Society & Culture

Topic: Social Sciences

Number of Pages: 242 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Faith, Hope, and Jobs : Welfare-To-Work in Los Angeles

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Subject: Public Policy / General, Philanthropy & Charity, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Research, Government & Business, Religion, Politics & State

Publication Year: 2006

Item Height: 0.8 in

Item Weight: 13.6 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 8.5 in

Subject Area: Religion, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics

Author: Stephen V. Monsma

Series: Religion and Politics Ser.

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Hardcover