The other welfare
Subtitle: supplemental security income and U.S. social policy
By: Edward D. Berkowitz and Larry DeWitt
Contributors: DeWitt, Larry, 1949-
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780801451737
Subjects: History; Social policy; Supplemental security income program; Public welfare
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Creating a new welfare program : the politics of welfare and social security reform in the Nixon administration; title: A year in transition : why planning for the new program became difficult; title: Launching the program : why the program began badly; title: The emergence of a disability program : how the program's fundamental identity changed; title: The continuing disability reviews : how the politics of controversy hindered the program; title: The courts and other sources of program growth : how the program expanded in a conservative age; title: The welfare reform of 1996 : how the program became swept up in the narrative of welfare fraud and abuse; title: Post-1996 developments : a brief postscript.