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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