Targeting in Social Programs
Subtitle: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: November 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780815778806
Subjects: Social issues; Social welfare & social services; Social Work; Political Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; General; Public Policy - Social Policy; Government policy; Human services; Public welfare administration; United States
Description: "Provides a framework for analyzing the challenges involved in defining bad bets and bad apples and discusses the safeguards that any classification process must provide. Examines public schools, public housing, and medical care and proposes policy changes that could reduce the problems these two groups pose in social welfare programs"--Provided by publisher.