The other welfare : supplemental security income's role in America's social policy / / Edward D. Berkowitz and Larry D. DeWitt.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Berkowitz, Edward D.
• TeilnehmendeR: DeWitt, Larry, 1949-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 279 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Creating a new welfare program : the politics of welfare and social security reform in the Nixon administration -- A year in transition : why planning for the new program became difficult -- Launching the program : why the program began badly -- The emergence of a disability program : how the program's fundamental identity changed -- The continuing disability reviews : how the politics of controversy hindered the program -- The courts and other sources of program growth : how the program expanded in a conservative age -- The welfare reform of 1996 : how the program became swept up in the narrative of welfare fraud and abuse -- Post-1996 developments : a brief postscript.