Title The other welfare : supplemental security income and U.S. social policy / Edward D. Berkowitz and Larry DeWitt

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies Contents The other welfare -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Creating a new welfare program : The politics of welfare and Social Security reform in the Nixon administration -- Chapter 2. A year in transition : Why planning for the new program became difficult -- Chapter 3. Launching the program : Why the program began badly -- Chapter 4. The emergence of a disability program : How the program's fundamental identity changed -- Chapter 5. The continuing disability reviews : How the politics of controversy hindered the program -- Chapter 6. The courts and other sources of program growth : How the program expanded in a conservative age -- Chapter 7. The welfare reform of 1996 : How the program became swept up in the narrative of welfare fraud and abuse -- Chapter 8. Post-1996 developments : A brief postscript -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index Summary This title offers a comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon's daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration 'The Other Welfare' offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon's daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) marked the culmination of liberal social and economic policies that began during the New Deal. The new program provided cash benefits to needy elderly, blind, and disabled individuals. Because of the complex character of SSI - marking both the high tide of the Great Society and the beginning of the retrenchment of the welfare state - it provides the perfect subject for assessing the development of the American state in the late twentieth century. SSI was launched with the hope of freeing welfare programs from social and political stigma ; it instead became a source of controversy almost from its very start. Intended as a program that paid uniform benefits across the nation, it ended up replicating many of the state-by-state differences that characterized the American welfare state. Begun as a program intended to provide income for the elderly, SSI evolved into a program that served people with disabilities, becoming a primary source of financial aid for the de-institutionalized mentally ill and a principal support for children with disabilities. Written by a leading historian of America's welfare state and the former chief historian of the Social Security Administration, 'The Other Welfare' illuminates the course of modern social policy. Using documents previously unavailable to researchers, the authors delve into SSI’s transformation from the idealistic intentions of its founders to the realities of its performance in America’s highly splintered political system. In telling this important and overlooked history, this book alters the conventional wisdom about the development of American social welfare policy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Supplemental security income program -- United States -- History Public welfare -- United States -- History HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. Public welfare Social policy Supplemental security income program SUBJECT United States -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547 Subject United States Genre/Form Electronic book History Form Electronic book Author DeWitt, Larry, 1949- author. LC no. 2019725174 ISBN 9780801467325 0801467322 0801467330 9780801467332

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