The high cost of good intentions a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs
Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.S. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destitute through no fault of their own. Yet as federal entitlement programs have grown, so too have their inefficiency and their cost. Neither tax revenues nor...
| Main Author: | Cogan, John F. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 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 GI Bill
- Setting the postwar entitlement agenda, 1946-1950
- Establishing social insurance dominance, 1951-1964
- 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 other in U.S. history.