The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501702122 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In telling this important and overlooked history, this book alters the conventional wisdom about the development of American social welfare policy.. The new program provided cash benefits to needy elderly, blind, and disabled individuals. Intended as a program that paid uniform benefits across the nation, it ended up replicating many of the state-by-state differences that characterized the American welfare state. Begun as a program intended to provide income for the elderly, SSI evolved into a program that served people with disabilities, becoming a primary source of financial aid for the de-institutionalized mentally ill and a principal support for children with disabilities.Written by a leading historian of America's welfare state and the former chief historian of the Social Security Administration, The Other Welfare illuminates the course of modern social policy. Using documents previously unavailable to researchers, the authors delve into SSI’s transformation from the idealistic intentions of its founders to the realities of its performance in America’s highly spli
Given the significance of SSI to the U.S. Erkul, Journal of Children and Poverty (September 2013) "Berkowitz and DeWitt offer an exceptionally fine history of SSI. In this sense, it takes its place in the venerable tradition of American Political Development."Benjamin W. political-cultural context of deserving and underserving pooris inherently fraught with controversy. welfare state and its growth in an era otherwise marked by a rhetorical rejection of 'big government liberalism,' the program’s history helps us bet
Larry DeWitt is Former Public Historian, U.S. Social Security Administration, and coauthor with Edward D. Edward D. He is the author of several books, including Mass Appeal: The Formative Age of the Movies, Radio, and TV and Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies as well as many books and articles on Social S