Making Social Welfare Policy in America: Three Case Studies Since 1950

by Edward D. Berkowitz

Book Overview

American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise productive people to lives of inactivity, and a welfare program that attracts wide criticism. Making Social Welfare Policy in America explains how this happened by examining the historical development of three key programs--Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, and Temporary Aid to Needy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022669223X
• ISBN13: 9780226692234
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"