Making Social Welfare Policy in America : Three Case Studies since 1950 /

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 hap...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berkowitz, Edward D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Temas:
Aid to families with dependent children programs > United States > History > 20th century.
Disability insurance > United States > History > 20th century.
Medicare > History > 20th century.
Public welfare > United States > History > 20th century.
Public welfare-United States-History-20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
Medicare.
Social Security.
disability insurance.
welfare.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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