The failed welfare revolution : America's struggle over guaranteed income policy
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The failed welfare revolution : America's struggle over guaranteed income policy
Princeton University Press, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-295) and index
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Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things might have turned out differently. During the 1960s and 1970s, policymakers in three presidential administrations tried to replace the nation's existing welfare system with a revolutionary program to guarantee Americans basic economic security. Surprisingly from today's vantage point, guaranteed income plans received broad bipartisan support in the 1960s. One proposal, President Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, nearly passed into law in the 1970s, and President Carter advanced a similar bill a few years later. The failure of these proposals marked the federal government's last direct effort to alleviate poverty among the least advantaged and, ironically, sowed the seeds of conservative welfare reform strategies under President Reagan and beyond. This episode has largely vanished from America's collective memory. Here, Brian Steensland tells the whole story for the first time--from why such an unlikely policy idea first developed to the factors that sealed its fate.
His account, based on extensive original research in presidential archives, draws on mainstream social science perspectives that emphasize the influence of powerful stakeholder groups and policymaking institutions. But Steensland also shows that some of the most potent obstacles to guaranteed income plans were cultural. Most centrally, by challenging Americans' longstanding distinction between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor, the plans threatened the nation's cultural, political, and economic status quo.
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Preface ix Abbreviations xiii INTRODUCTION: Understanding the Failed Welfare Revolution 1 CHAPTER ONE: The Rise of Guaranteed Annual Income 28 CHAPTER TWO: Guaranteed Annual Income Goes Public 52 CHAPTER THREE: The Origins and Transformation of the Nixon Plan 79 CHAPTER FOUR: Nixon's Family Assistance Plan Stalls 120 CHAPTER FIVE: Defeat and Its Policy Legacy 157 CHAPTER SIX: Carter and the Program for Better Jobs and Income 182 CHAPTER SEVEN: Lost Opportunities, Consequences, and Lessons 219 CHAPTER EIGHT: Culture and Welfare Policy Development 232 Notes 247 References 283 Index 297
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