America's welfare state : from Roosevelt to Reagan
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America's welfare state : from Roosevelt to Reagan
（The American moment）
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1991
- : pbk
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ISBN 9780801841279
Description
Social welfare policy in the United States has gone from controversy in the 1930s, to consensus at mid-century, and back to controversy and confusion in the late twentieth century. In America's Welfare State, Edward Berkowitz offers a concise and informative historical overview of this costly and often frustrating area of domestic policy.
Descriving the uneasy evolution of America's welfare programs, Berkowitz explains how the Social Security program became popular, why it almost went bankrupt, and why its long-term prospects for solvency remain uncertain. He traces changing public perceptions of social welfare goals, from providing secure entitlements for the eldery in the 1930s and 1940s to making payments to illegitimate children and their mothers in the 1950s and 1960s. He also explores the question of national health insurnace, noting that the United States outspends Japan on health care per capita by a margin of tow to one, and yea millions of Americans remain without health insurance.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. The Social Security Crisis
Chapter 2. Inventing Social Security, 1935
Chapter 3. The Triump of Social Security, 1936-1954
Chapter 4. The Day of Reckoning
Part II. The Frustrations of Welfare Reform
Chapter 5. Welfare's State, 1935-1967
Chapter 6. Welfare Restated, 1967-1988
Part III. The Mirage of National Health Insurance
Chapter 7. Medicare and Health Policy, 1935-1989
Part IV. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Long-Term Care of the Welfare State
A Note on the Sources
Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780801841286
Description
Describing the uneasy evolution of America's welfare programs, Berkowitz explains how Social Security became popular, why it almost went bankrupt, and why its long-term prospects for solvency remain uncertain. He also explores the question of national health insurance, noting that the U.S. outspends Japan on health care per capita by a margin of two to one, and yet millions of Americans remain without health insurance.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. The Social Security Crisis
Chapter 2. Inventing Social Security, 1935
Chapter 3. The Triump of Social Security, 1936-1954
Chapter 4. The Day of Reckoning
Part II. The Frustrations of Welfare Reform
Chapter 5. Welfare's State, 1935-1967
Chapter 6. Welfare Restated, 1967-1988
Part III. The Mirage of National Health Insurance
Chapter 7. Medicare and Health Policy, 1935-1989
Part IV. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Long-Term Care of the Welfare State
A Note on the Sources
Index
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