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Making Social Welfare Policy in America : Three Case Studies since 1950
Title
Making Social Welfare Policy in America : Three Case Studies since 1950 / Edward D. Berkowitz.
ISBN
9780226692371
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (312 p.) : 6 line drawings
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise productive people to lives of inactivity, and a welfare program that attracts wide criticism. Making Social Welfare Policy in America explains how this happened by examining the historical development of three key programs-Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, and Temporary Aid to Needy Families. Edward D. Berkowitz traces the developments that led to each program's creation. Policy makers often find it difficult to dislodge a program's administrative structure, even as political, economic, and cultural circumstances change. Faced with this situation, they therefore solve contemporary problems with outdated programs and must improvise politically acceptable solutions. The results vary according to the political popularity of the program and the changes in the conventional wisdom. Some programs, such as Social Security Disability Insurance, remain in place over time. Policy makers have added new parts to Medicare to reflect modern developments. Congress has abolished Aid to Families of Dependent Children and replaced with a new program intended to encourage work among adult welfare recipients raising young children. Written in an accessible style and using a minimum of academic jargon, this book illuminates how three of our most important social welfare programs have come into existence and how they have fared over time.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One. Congress Passes a Law, the Labor Movement Unites, and Walter George Retires
Chapter Two. What Happened to the Disability Program and How Policy Makers Tried to Respond
Chapter Three. Wilbur Mills, Wilbur Cohen, and Nelson Cruikshank Curate Medicare
Chapter Four. The Consequences of Medicare from Accommodation to Regulation
Chapter Five. The Continuing Consequences of Medicare
Chapter Six. The Welfare Reform Debate from JFK to Reagan
Chapter Seven. Clinton, Gingrich, and Welfare Reform in 1996
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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