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Making Social Welfare Policy in America

Three Case Studies since 1950

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

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Making Social Welfare Policy in America

Three Case Studies since 1950

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise productive people to lives of inactivity, and a welfare program that attracts wide criticism. Making Social Welfare Policy in America explains how this happened by examining the historical development of three key programs—Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, and Temporary Aid to Needy Families. Edward D. Berkowitz traces the developments that led to each program’s creation. Policy makers often find it difficult to dislodge a program’s administrative structure, even as political, economic, and cultural circumstances change. Faced with this situation, they therefore solve contemporary problems with outdated programs and must improvise politically acceptable solutions. The results vary according to the political popularity of the program and the changes in the conventional wisdom. Some programs, such as Social Security Disability Insurance, remain in place over time. Policy makers have added new parts to Medicare to reflect modern developments. Congress has abolished Aid to Families of Dependent Children and replaced with a new program intended to encourage work among adult welfare recipients raising young children. Written in an accessible style and using a minimum of academic jargon, this book illuminates how three of our most important social welfare programs have come into existence and how they have fared over time.

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University of Chicago Press

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022669237X

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Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

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Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

Berkowitz tells the inside story of Social Security politics, including controversies during the 1970s, Congressional rescue of the program in 1983, and the ongoing debates about structure and solvency that have enveloped the program since the 1990s. He looks at how the Social Security Administration gained and nearly lost a reputation for administrative competence, how Medicare was put into operation, and why campaigns to create national health insurance have failed."--Jacket.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299189546

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To Improve Human Health

A History of the Institute of Medicine

By: Institute of Medicine,Edward D. Berkowitz

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To Improve Human Health

A History of the Institute of Medicine

By: Institute of Medicine,Edward D. Berkowitz

Since its founding in 1970, the Institute of Medicine has become an internationally recognized source of independent advice and expertise on a broad spectrum of topics and issues related to the advancement of the health sciences and education and public health. Institute activities, reports, and policy statements have gained a wide audience both in the United States and throughout the world. In this first formal history of the Institute, Professor Edward D. Berkowitz describes many of the important individuals and events associated with the Institute's creation, operation, development, and accomplishments since its founding, as well as the issues and challenges the Institute has confronted over the years that have helped shape it and to which it has contributed potential solutions and responses.

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National Academies Press

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0309061881

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9780309061889

Disabled Policy

America's Programs for the Handicapped: A Twentieth Century Fund Report

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

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Disabled Policy

America's Programs for the Handicapped: A Twentieth Century Fund Report

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

Combining history and an analysis of policy today, this book exposes the contradictions in America's disability policy and suggests means of remedying them. Based on careful archival research and interviews with policymakers, the book illustrates the dilemmas that public policies pose for the handicapped: the present system forces too many people with physical impairments into retirement, despite the availability of constructive alternatives.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521389305

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The Other Welfare

supplemental security income and U.S. Social Policy

By: Edward D. Berkowitz,Larry DeWitt

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The Other Welfare

supplemental security income and U.S. Social Policy

By: Edward D. Berkowitz,Larry DeWitt

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.

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Cornell University Press

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0801467330

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Advances in Pediatrics 2018

By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Surendra Varma,Moira Szilagyi,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Jane Carver,Leslie L. Barton

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Advances in Pediatrics 2018

By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Surendra Varma,Moira Szilagyi,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Jane Carver,Leslie L. Barton

Each year, Advances in Pediatrics focuses on providing current clinical information on important topics in pediatrics. This year, Dr. Carol Berkowitz has taken over as Editor, and she and her new editorial board have assembled top authors to provide updates on the following topics: Evaluation and Management of Febrile Infants

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032365360X

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9780323653602

The Medical Follow-up Agency

The First Fifty Years, 1946-1996

By: Edward D. Berkowitz,Mark J. Santangelo,Institute of Medicine

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The Medical Follow-up Agency

The First Fifty Years, 1946-1996

By: Edward D. Berkowitz,Mark J. Santangelo,Institute of Medicine

The Medical Follow-up Agency is a national treasure for veterans and for long-term studies of health. Its data resources provide incomparable opportunities to follow very important populations and to ask creative questions about their well-being as well as the occurrence and significance of illness. The Twin Registry provides an opportunity to understand the impact of heredity on health and disease in a population of more than 16,000 pairs of twins (i.e., 32,000 veterans). The Medical Follow-up Agency is a living tribute to the vision, energy, and effectiveness of Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. Dr. DeBakey created the idea for the agency, obtained the appropriate approvals, staffed its initial creation, and 50 years later, spoke on the occasion of its golden anniversary. This sequence of events must be unique in the history of veterans' health and medical research.

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National Academies Press

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0309596955

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9780309596954

Advances in Pediatrics, 2019

By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Surendra Varma,Moira Szilagyi,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Jane Carver,Leslie L. Barton

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Advances in Pediatrics, 2019

By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Surendra Varma,Moira Szilagyi,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Jane Carver,Leslie L. Barton

Each year, Advances in Pediatrics focuses on providing current clinical information on important topics in pediatrics. Dr. Carol Berkowitz and her editorial board, comprised of top experts in the field, have assembled authors to provide updates on the following topics: Evaluation and Management of Febrile Infants; Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Ultrasonography; The Patient-Centered Pediatric Emergency Department; Health Considerations of Refuge and Immigrant Children; Management of scoliosis; Health and Wellness for LGBTQ Youth; Sexually exploited children: recognizing and addressing; Movement disorders in children; Childhood trauma management in primary care; Feeding issues in young children; Physician Well-being and Burnout; New Molecular Methods for Diagnosing Infectious Diseases; Parental refusal: treatments, procedures and vaccines; Pediatric oncology in the ICU setting; Diaphragmatic hernia: Management and Outcomes; and Global Health and Pediatric Education: Opportunities and Challenges. Readers will come away with the clinical information that supplements their professional knowledge so they can make informed clinical decisions that improve patient outcomes.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323756301

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Advances in Pediatrics 2017

By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Leslie L. Barton,Jane Carver,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Surendra Varma

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By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Leslie L. Barton,Jane Carver,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Surendra Varma

Advances in Pediatrics reviews the most current practices in pediatrics. A distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. Carol Berkowitz, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites expert pediatricians to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care. Topics such as fetal diagnosis and surgical intervention, updates in pharmacology, and fatty liver disease are represented, highlighting the most current and relevant information in the field.

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0323554415

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Something Happened

A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

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Something Happened

A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. dependence on Arab oil, characterized an increasingly bleak economic situation. As Edward D. Berkowitz demonstrates, the end of the postwar economic boom, Watergate, and defeat in Vietnam led to an unraveling of the national consensus. During the decade, ideas about the United States, how it should be governed, and how its economy should be managed changed dramatically. Berkowitz argues that the postwar faith in sweeping social programs and a global U.S. mission was replaced by a more skeptical attitude about government's ability to positively affect society. From Woody Allen to Watergate, from the decline of the steel industry to the rise of Bill Gates, and from Saturday Night Fever to the Sunday morning fervor of evangelical preachers, Berkowitz captures the history, tone, and spirit of the seventies. He explores the decade's major political events and movements, including the rise and fall of détente, congressional reform, changes in healthcare policies, and the hostage crisis in Iran. The seventies also gave birth to several social movements and the "rights revolution," in which women, gays and lesbians, and people with disabilities all successfully fought for greater legal and social recognition. At the same time, reaction to these social movements as well as the issue of abortion introduced a new facet into American political life-the rise of powerful, politically conservative religious organizations and activists. Berkowitz also considers important shifts in American popular culture, recounting the creative renaissance in American film as well as the birth of the Hollywood blockbuster. He discusses how television programs such as All in the Family and Charlie's Angels offered Americans both a reflection of and an escape from the problems gripping the country.

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0231500513

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Making Social Welfare Policy in America

Three Case Studies since 1950

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

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Three Case Studies since 1950

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Something Happened

A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies

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A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies

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Describes the political events, movements, and popular culture of the nineteen seventies.

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Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

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The Other Welfare

supplemental security income and U.S. Social Policy

By: Edward D. Berkowitz,Larry DeWitt

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supplemental security income and U.S. Social Policy

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Making Social Welfare Policy in America

Making Social Welfare Policy in America

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

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To Improve Human Health

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Disabled Policy

Disabled Policy

The Other Welfare

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Advances in Pediatrics 2018

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The Medical Follow-up Agency

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Advances in Pediatrics, 2019

Advances in Pediatrics, 2019

Advances in Pediatrics 2017

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Something Happened

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Making Social Welfare Policy in America

Making Social Welfare Policy in America

Something Happened

Something Happened

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

The Other Welfare

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