The high cost of good intentions : a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs /

This book traces the evolution of U.S. federal entitlement programs from the Revolutionary War to modern times to identify and understand the common economic and political forces that have caused their nearly continuous growth.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cogan, John F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Entitlement spending > United States > History.
Public welfare > United States > History.
Social security > United States > History.
Dépenses sociales > États-Unis > Histoire.
Sécurité sociale > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Entitlement spending.
Public welfare.
Social security.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Creating legislative precedents : Revolutionary War pensions
  • An experiment with government trust funds : Navy pensions
  • The first great entitlement : Civil War pensions
  • Repeating past mistakes : World War I veterans benefits
  • Retrenchment : Roosevelt and the veterans
  • The birth of the modern entitlement state
  • The consequences of social security surpluses
  • A new kind of entitlement : the G.I. Bill
  • Setting the post-war entitlement agenda : 1946/1950
  • 1951/1964 : establishing social insurance dominance
  • The beginning of the great turn in welfare policy : 1951/1964
  • The first Great Society
  • A legal right to welfare
  • The second Great Society
  • First inklings of fiscal limits : 1975/1980
  • A temporary slowdown : 1981/1989
  • Recognition and denial : 1989/2014
  • A challenge unlike any in U.S. history.

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