America''s Welfare State - From Roosevelt to Reagan

Informationen zum Autor Edward D. Berkowitz , professor of history at George Washington University, has participated in the making of social welfare policy as a policy analyst at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and as a senior staffmember of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties. He is the author of Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped . Klappentext Describing the uneasy evolution of America's welfare programs, Berkowitz explains how Social Security became popular, why it almost went bankrupt, and why its long-term prospects for solvency remain uncertain. He also explores the question of national health insurance, noting that the U.S. outspends Japan on health care per capita by a margin of two to one, and yet millions of Americans remain without health insurance.

Product details

• Authors: Edward D. Berkowitz, Berkowitz Edward D.
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.1991
• EAN: 9780801841286
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4128-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: American Moment; The American Moment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Social welfare and social services, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)