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.
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Readers of America's Welfare State will derive an excellent understanding of the complexity surrounding social welfare in the late 20th-century US. Upper-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
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 15 mm
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978-0-8018-4128-6 (9780801841286)
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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.
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
