Safety net : welfare and social security, 1929-1979 / Blanche D. Coll.

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Coll, Blanche D

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 347 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0585080240
9780585080246
0813521599
9780813521596
081358566X
9780813585666

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Safety net.DDC classification:

361.973 20

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HV91 .C66 1995eb

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Summary: Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929, Blanche Coll documents the evolution of 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 kernel of the American welfare state.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329) and index.

Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929, Blanche Coll documents the evolution of 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 kernel of the American welfare state.

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