Social Security And Welfare: Concepts And Comparisons

Social Security And Welfare: Concepts And Comparisons
Author: Walker, Robert
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2004-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0335209343

What are the aims of social security and assistance provisions?Are they effective?Why do countries differ in the design and effectiveness of theirsocial security systems?This introductory textbook provides a foundation for the systematicstudy of social security, including means-tested provisionor social assistance.For undergraduate and postgraduate students of social policy,welfare, and economics.

Understanding Social Security (Second Edition)

Understanding Social Security (Second Edition)
Author: Jane Millar
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2009-02-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781847421869

The second edition of this important text reviews policy developments since 1997. The chapters have been extensively updated and there are new chapters on social security reform, inequalities and social security, and the new 'welfare market'.

What’s Wrong with Social Security Benefits?

What’s Wrong with Social Security Benefits?
Author: Paul Spicker
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2017-02-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447337328

This provocative short book is a valuable introduction to social security in Britain and the potential for its reform.

Social Security Works!

Social Security Works!
Author: Nancy Altman
Publisher: New Press, The
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-01-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1620970473

A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security system—people who know that Social Security will not “go broke” and does not add a penny to the national debt. Social Security Works! will amplify these voices and offer a powerful antidote to the three-decade-long, billionaire-funded campaign to make us believe that this vital institution is destined to collapse. It isn't. From the Silent Generation to Baby Boomers, from Generation X to Millennials and Generation Z, we all have a stake in understanding the real story about Social Security. Critical to addressing the looming retirement crisis that will affect two- thirds of today's workers, Social Security is a powerful program that can help stop the collapse of the middle class, lessen the pressure squeezing families from all directions, and help end the upward redistribution of wealth that has resulted in perilous levels of inequality. All Americans deserve to have dignified retirement years as well as an umbrella to protect them and their families in the event of disability or premature death. Sure to be a game-changer, Social Security Works! cogently presents the issues and sets forth both an agenda and a political strategy that will benefit us all. At stake are our values and the kind of country we want for ourselves and for those that follow.

Safety Net

Safety Net
Author: Blanche D. Coll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Public welfare
ISBN: 9780813585666

Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929, Blanche Coll documents the evolution of federal and state government policymaking for welfare and Social Security, our "safety net." As Coll points out, the policies that determine who is "entitled" to aid, how standard dollar amounts are set, child support responsibilities, the equitable fiscal division between state, federal, and local governments, and the resulting impact on the poor - particularly women and children of all races - have fluctuated throughout the history of welfare. Coll shows how demographic patterns, the definition of a family, the relative health of the economy, and Presidents' political agendas all deeply affect the system of entitlements to Social Security and welfare, the kernel of the American welfare state

The Segregated Origins of Social Security

The Segregated Origins of Social Security
Author: Mary Poole
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2006-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807877220

The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between liberal and conservative forces. In The Segregated Origins of Social Security, Mary Poole challenges that basic assumption. Meticulously reconstructing the behind-the-scenes politicking that gave birth to the 1935 Social Security Act, Poole demonstrates that segregation was built into the very foundation of the welfare state because white policy makers--both liberal and conservative--shared an interest in preserving white race privilege. Although northern white liberals were theoretically sympathetic to the plight of African Americans, Poole says, their primary aim was to save the American economy by salvaging the pride of America's "essential" white male industrial workers. The liberal framers of the Social Security Act elevated the status of Unemployment Insurance and Social Security--and the white workers they were designed to serve--by differentiating them from welfare programs, which served black workers. Revising the standard story of the racialized politics of Roosevelt's New Deal, Poole's arguments also reshape our understanding of the role of public policy in race relations in the twentieth century, laying bare the assumptions that must be challenged if we hope to put an end to racial inequality in the twenty-first.