
Safety Net
Welfare and Social Security, 1929-1979
Blanche D. Coll(Author)
Rutgers University Press
Will be published approx. on 1. August 1995
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-8135-2159-6 (ISBN)
Description
Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929, Blanche Coll documents the evolution of the federal and state government policymaking for welfare and Social Security, our "safety net." As Coll points out, the policies that determine who is "entitled" to aid, how standard dollar amounts are set, child support responsibilities, the equitable fiscal division between state, federal, and local governments, and the resulting impact on the poor??particularly women and children of all races??have fluctuated throughout the history of welfare.
Coll shows how demographic patterns, the definition of a family, the relative health of the economy, and Presidents' political agendas all deeply affect the system of entitlements to Social Security and welfare, the kernal of the American welfare state.
Safety Net is the only comprehensive history of modern welfare in the United States. Clearly written and unpolemical, it is based on a wealth of primary sources, interviews with key policymakers, and the authoritative analysis of a trained historian who served as a research administrator in the federal government through Democractic and Republican administrations. Saftey Net will be indispensable reading for everyone concerned with contemporary debates about welfare and Social Security.
Coll shows how demographic patterns, the definition of a family, the relative health of the economy, and Presidents' political agendas all deeply affect the system of entitlements to Social Security and welfare, the kernal of the American welfare state.
Safety Net is the only comprehensive history of modern welfare in the United States. Clearly written and unpolemical, it is based on a wealth of primary sources, interviews with key policymakers, and the authoritative analysis of a trained historian who served as a research administrator in the federal government through Democractic and Republican administrations. Saftey Net will be indispensable reading for everyone concerned with contemporary debates about welfare and Social Security.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Brunswick NJ
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8135-2159-6 (9780813521596)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Blanche D. Coll is a consultant and historian residing in Washington, D.C. who has worked in the federal government since 1946. She is also author of Perspectives in Public Welfare: A History.
Content
Acknowledgments
This Business of Relief
From the Cradle to the Grave
Planning Welfare Programs
The Unsettling Question
An Orphan Program
The Main Stem
The Safety Net
The Welfare Mess
More Than a Salvage Operation
Workfare
Welfare Reform
To End Welfare as We Know It
Notes
Bibliography
Index
This Business of Relief
From the Cradle to the Grave
Planning Welfare Programs
The Unsettling Question
An Orphan Program
The Main Stem
The Safety Net
The Welfare Mess
More Than a Salvage Operation
Workfare
Welfare Reform
To End Welfare as We Know It
Notes
Bibliography
Index