TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Greg M.
TI  - The welfare debate
T2  - Historical guides to controversial issues in America,
SN  - 9780313084287
AV  - HV91 .S47 2007eb
U1  - 362.5/560973 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Westport, Conn.
PB  - Greenwood Press
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - United States
KW  - Social policy
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index; Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- The early American roots of welfare -- Controlling the poor in nineteenth-century America -- From mothers' pensions to a troubled aid to dependent children program -- The rise and fall of the war on poverty -- The 1970s and 1980s--backlash and an emerging neoconservative consensus -- The end of welfare entitlement -- A new world of welfare -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Time line of significant developments in American social welfare provision -- Appendix 2: Annotated list of further readings -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - A political scientist and public-opinion analyst illuminates the shifting perceptions and moral constants that have governed the welfare debate in America since the earliest days of European settlement
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ER  -