The other welfare : supplemental security income and U.S. social policy / Edward D. Berkowitz and Larry DeWitt
- Author:
- Berkowitz, Edward D.
- Published:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
- Physical Description:
- x, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Additional Creators:
- DeWitt, Larry, 1949-
- Contents:
- Creating a new welfare program : the politics of welfare and social security reform in the Nixon administration -- A year in transition : why planning for the new program became difficult -- Launching the program : why the program began badly -- The emergence of a disability program : how the program's fundamental identity changed -- The continuing disability reviews : how the politics of controversy hindered the program -- The courts and other sources of program growth : how the program expanded in a conservative age -- The welfare reform of 1996 : how the program became swept up in the narrative of welfare fraud and abuse -- Post-1996 developments : a brief postscript.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780801451737 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801451736 (cloth : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243- 271) and index.
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