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The welfare state nobody knows : debunking myths about U.S. social policy / Christopher Howard.

By: Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.Description: xiv, 259 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 069112180X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780691121802 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.6/10973 22
LOC classification:
  • HN57 .H68 2007
Other classification:
  • 71.80
Online resources:
Contents:
I: Basic tour -- She's so unusual -- Tracks of my tiers -- Twice in a lifetime -- II: New horizons -- Ogres, onions, and layers (or, how Republicans built the American welfare state) -- Programs for the poor are not always poor programs -- Shaq is still pretty tall: public support for the American welfare state -- The world according to AARP -- III: Checkpoints and roadblocks -- The American states: laboratories of Democracy or cryogenic chambers? -- Race still matters -- Change versus progress.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-254) and index.

I: Basic tour -- She's so unusual -- Tracks of my tiers -- Twice in a lifetime -- II: New horizons -- Ogres, onions, and layers (or, how Republicans built the American welfare state) -- Programs for the poor are not always poor programs -- Shaq is still pretty tall: public support for the American welfare state -- The world according to AARP -- III: Checkpoints and roadblocks -- The American states: laboratories of Democracy or cryogenic chambers? -- Race still matters -- Change versus progress.

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