America's Welfare State by Edward D Berkowitz

America's Welfare State by Edward D Berkowitz

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.

Readers of America's Welfare State will derive an excellent understanding of the complexity surrounding social welfare in the late 20th-century USUpper-division undergraduates and above. Choice Useful for scholars and students both for its insights into the policy-making process and for its account of how American social policy arrived at the sorry state we find it in today. -- Jeffrey L. Davidson Contemporary Sociology A remarkably successful book... powerfully written and clearly of interest to scholars and policy experts alike. -- Ellis W. Hawley Labor History Berkowitz has gone behind the written statute and the official press release to find out who believed what and who did what to effect changes in the process and substantive aspects of welfare statism. This book is a worthy addition to the literature. -- Robert J. Lampman Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Edward D. Berkowitz, professor of history at George Washington University, has participated in the making of social welfare policy as a policy analyst at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and as a senior staffmember of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties. He is the author of Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped.

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ISBN 13	9780801841286
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Titel	America's Welfare State
Autor	Edward D Berkowitz
Serie	The American Moment
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1991-04-26
Seitenanzahl	240
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