Understanding the Social Security Act: The Foundation of Social Welfare for America in the Twenty-First Century

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2009-04-08
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0195366891
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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The future of the United States' social welfare commitments, including retirement and disability payments, unemployment insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and the State Child Health Insurance Program, poses urgent questions as social and demographic change in the country accelerates. Yet even many social welfare policy experts fail to grasp the sheer size and intricacy of the Social Security Act, which governs those commitments, and the resulting complexity of any reform efforts. In this outstanding guide to the Act's programs and policies, along with the context that shaped them, Andrew Dobelstein takes readers step by step through their maze, providing the kind of comprehensive view of the U.S. social welfare system that is essential for any would-be reformers to master.

Since being signed into law in 1935, the Social Security Act has institutionalized the country's social welfare undertakings into a massive package administered by a sprawling federal agency and state-level or Download Understanding the Social Security Act for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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