Since the passage of national welfare reform legislation, social programs in the areas of welfare, employment, health and social services have been changing rapidly. This book discusses many of the different changes that these policies have gone through in recent years as well as discusses the shift of responsibility toward state and local government for these changes. It is divided into 1) federal, state, and local relations, 2)executive, legislative, and judicial relation, 3) the group struggle, 4) public values, and 5) democracy with minority resistance.