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The high cost of good intentions : a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs / John F. Cogan.
LIBRA HJ7543 .C64 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cogan, John F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Entitlement spending--United States--History.
- Entitlement spending.
- Public welfare--United States--History.
- Public welfare.
- History.
- United States.
- Social security--United States--History.
- Social security.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 500 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Creating legislative precedents : Revolutionary War pensions
- An experiment with government trust funds : Navy pensions
- The first great entitlement : Civil War pensions
- Repeating past mistakes : World War I veterans benefits
- Retrenchment : Roosevelt and the veterans
- The birth of the modern entitlement state
- The consequences of social security surpluses
- A new kind of entitlement : the G.I. Bill
- Setting the post-war entitlement agenda : 1946/1950
- 1951/1964 : establishing social insurance dominance
- The beginning of the great turn in welfare policy : 1951/1964
- The first Great Society
- A legal right to welfare
- The second Great Society
- First inklings of fiscal limits : 1975/1980
- A temporary slowdown : 1981/1989
- Recognition and denial : 1989/2014
- A challenge unlike any in U.S. history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cogan, John F., author. High cost of good intentions
- ISBN:
- 9781503603547
- 1503603547
- OCLC:
- 978654409
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