Abstract
CSWE mandates the study of social welfare policy, its history, and its evaluation; thus, assignments that require students to select policy for study are common. Educators provide frameworks for analysis but may not address the prerequisite step of locating policy for study, so students flounder in government documents without the tools to navigate the organizational and retrieval structures. This article provides basic tools for locating federal law and for deciphering the United States Code (USC), which topically organizes and houses all federal legislation. It uses the familiar examples of social security, welfare reform, and charitable choice. Familiarizing social workers with the USC provides useful knowledge for various policy projects and a conceptual framework for understanding federal policy, past, and present.
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