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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSteensland, Brian
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Failed Welfare Revolution :
_bAmerica's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy /
_cBrian Steensland.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.) :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAbbreviations --
_tINTRODUCTION: Understanding the Failed Welfare Revolution --
_tCHAPTER ONE. The Rise of Guaranteed Annual Income --
_tCHAPTER TWO. Guaranteed Annual Income Goes Public --
_tCHAPTER THREE. The Origins and Transformation of the Nixon Plan --
_tCHAPTER FOUR. Nixon's Family Assistance Plan Stalls --
_tCHAPTER FIVE. Defeat and Its Policy Legacy --
_tCHAPTER SIX. Carter and the Program for Better Jobs and Income --
_tCHAPTER SEVEN. Lost Opportunities, Consequences, and Lessons --
_tCHAPTER EIGHT. Culture and Welfare Policy Development --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
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520 _aToday the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things might have turned out differently. During the 1960s and 1970s, policymakers in three presidential administrations tried to replace the nation's existing welfare system with a revolutionary program to guarantee Americans basic economic security. Surprisingly from today's vantage point, guaranteed income plans received broad bipartisan support in the 1960s. One proposal, President Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, nearly passed into law in the 1970s, and President Carter advanced a similar bill a few years later. The failure of these proposals marked the federal government's last direct effort to alleviate poverty among the least advantaged and, ironically, sowed the seeds of conservative welfare reform strategies under President Reagan and beyond. This episode has largely vanished from America's collective memory. Here, Brian Steensland tells the whole story for the first time--from why such an unlikely policy idea first developed to the factors that sealed its fate. His account, based on extensive original research in presidential archives, draws on mainstream social science perspectives that emphasize the influence of powerful stakeholder groups and policymaking institutions. But Steensland also shows that some of the most potent obstacles to guaranteed income plans were cultural. Most centrally, by challenging Americans' longstanding distinction between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor, the plans threatened the nation's cultural, political, and economic status quo.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
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