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Making social welfare policy in America : three case studies since 1950 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berkowitz, Edward D. (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Public welfare > United States > History > 20th century.
Disability insurance > United States > History > 20th century.
Medicare > History > 20th century.
Aid to families with dependent children programs > United States > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Congress passes a law, the labor movement unites, and Walter George retires
  • What happened to the disability program and how policy makers tried to respond
  • Wilbur Mills, Wilbur Cohen, and Nelson Cruikshank curate Medicare
  • The consequences of Medicare from accommodation to regulation
  • The continuing consequences of Medicare: choice and prescription drugs
  • The welfare reform debate from JFK to Reagan
  • Clinton, Gingrich, and welfare reform in 1996.