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The Other Welfare - Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy (Paperback)
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The Other Welfare - Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy (Paperback)
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The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of
Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of
President Nixon's daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role
in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in
1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) marked the culmination of
liberal social and economic policies that began during the New
Deal. The new program provided cash benefits to needy elderly,
blind, and disabled individuals. Because of the complex character
of SSI-marking both the high tide of the Great Society and the
beginning of the retrenchment of the welfare state-it provides the
perfect subject for assessing the development of the American state
in the late twentieth century.SSI was launched with the hope of
freeing welfare programs from social and political stigma; it
instead became a source of controversy almost from its very start.
Intended as a program that paid uniform benefits across the nation,
it ended up replicating many of the state-by-state differences that
characterized the American welfare state. Begun as a program
intended to provide income for the elderly, SSI evolved into a
program that served people with disabilities, becoming a primary
source of financial aid for the de-institutionalized mentally ill
and a principal support for children with disabilities.Written by a
leading historian of America's welfare state and the former chief
historian of the Social Security Administration, The Other Welfare
illuminates the course of modern social policy. Using documents
previously unavailable to researchers, the authors delve into SSI's
transformation from the idealistic intentions of its founders to
the realities of its performance in America's highly splintered
political system. In telling this important and overlooked history,
this book alters the conventional wisdom about the development of
American social welfare policy.
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