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The welfare debate / Greg M. Shaw.

By: Shaw, Greg MMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Historical guides to controversial issues in America: Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007Description: 1 online resource (xix, 190 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780313084287; 0313084289Subject(s): Public welfare -- United States | United States -- Social policy -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. | History.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Welfare debate.DDC classification: 362.5/560973 LOC classification: HV91 | .S47 2007ebOnline resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- The early American roots of welfare -- Controlling the poor in nineteenth-century America -- From mothers' pensions to a troubled aid to dependent children program -- The rise and fall of the war on poverty -- The 1970s and 1980s--backlash and an emerging neoconservative consensus -- The end of welfare entitlement -- A new world of welfare -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Time line of significant developments in American social welfare provision -- Appendix 2: Annotated list of further readings -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A political scientist and public-opinion analyst illuminates the shifting perceptions and moral constants that have governed the welfare debate in America since the earliest days of European settlement.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.

Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- The early American roots of welfare -- Controlling the poor in nineteenth-century America -- From mothers' pensions to a troubled aid to dependent children program -- The rise and fall of the war on poverty -- The 1970s and 1980s--backlash and an emerging neoconservative consensus -- The end of welfare entitlement -- A new world of welfare -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Time line of significant developments in American social welfare provision -- Appendix 2: Annotated list of further readings -- Bibliography -- Index.

A political scientist and public-opinion analyst illuminates the shifting perceptions and moral constants that have governed the welfare debate in America since the earliest days of European settlement.

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